[ovs-dev] [PATCH] INSTALL.Fedora: Make instructions more explicit.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Jun 30 18:59:31 UTC 2014


If this seems like an improvement, I can do the same thing for the RHEL
version.

CC: Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
---
 INSTALL.Fedora |   24 ++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL.Fedora b/INSTALL.Fedora
index d711e24..ae0eb28 100644
--- a/INSTALL.Fedora
+++ b/INSTALL.Fedora
@@ -30,14 +30,26 @@ for the sources directory.  On Fedora 17, the default RPM _topdir is
 $HOME/rpmbuild and the default RPM sources directory is
 $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES.
 
-1. If you are building from an Open vSwitch Git tree, then you will
-   need to first create a distribution tarball by running "./boot.sh;
-   ./configure; make dist" in the Git tree.
+1. If you are building from an Open vSwitch Git tree, create a
+   distribution tarball from the root of the Git tree by running:
 
-2. Copy the distribution tarball into the RPM sources directory.
+       ./boot.sh
+       ./configure
+       make dist
 
-3. Unpack the distribution tarball into a temporary directory and "cd"
-   into the root of the distribution tarball.
+   Otherwise, skip to step 2.
+
+2. Now you have a distribution tarball, named something like
+   openvswitch-x.y.z.tar.gz.  Copy this file into the RPM sources
+   directory, e.g.:
+
+       cp openvswitch-x.y.z.tar.gz $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES
+
+3. Make another copy of the distribution tarball in a temporary
+   directory.  Then unpack the tarball and "cd" into its root, e.g.:
+
+       tar xzf openvswitch-x.y.z.tar.gz
+       cd openvswitch-x.y.z
 
 4. To build Open vSwitch userspace, run:
 
-- 
1.7.10.4




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