[ovs-dev] Building an openvswitch rpm for the openvswitch

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:22:43AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Kyle Mestery (kmestery) (kmestery at cisco.com) wrote:
> > On Sep 25, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
> > > * Kyle Mestery (kmestery) (kmestery at cisco.com) wrote:
> > >> They are different, and not as flexible as the RHEL ones.
> > >> 
> > >> Let me give the RHEL ones with the latest OVS a try on Fedora and see
> > >> what happens there, and based on the result of that I'll see about fixing these
> > >> up as well.
> > > 
> > > You should look at the Fedora packages.  They won't build the kmod, but
> > > have all the Fedora-isms worked out.
> > > 
> > I was thinking that's the way to go. If it's possible to unify the RHEL and Fedora
> > ones upstream, I'll see about doing that. Otherwise, I'll submit patches for
> > Fedora specific spec files.
> 
> Be prepared for systemd vs sysvinit differences at the very least.  Also
> there's some packaging changes that make different (Build)Requires to
> be sure to have the right libraries and/or headers.

Hmm, perhaps it's not worth unifying them.  If so, I'm OK with that.