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

Kyle Mestery (kmestery) kmestery at cisco.com
Tue Sep 25 17:31:00 UTC 2012


On Sep 25, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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.

That's what I was thinking after looking at this as well. I'll proceed with separate
ones for Fedora then.

Thanks,
Kyle


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