[ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel7: Fix rpm install failure.

[Alex Wang]

Thanks for the review, applied to master and branch-2.3~

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Gurucharan Shetty <shettyg at nicira.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Alex Wang <alexw at nicira.com> wrote:
> > When trying to install the kernel module rpm built for RHEL7,
> > the install failed with following conflicts:
> >
> >   # rpm -i kmod-openvswitch-2.3.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
> >     file /lib/modules/3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64/modules.devname
> >     from install of kmod-openvswitch-2.3.1-1.el7.x86_64 conflicts
> >     with file from package kernel-3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64
> >
> >     file /lib/modules/3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64/modules.softdep
> >     from install of kmod-openvswitch-2.3.1-1.el7.x86_64 conflicts
> >     with file from package kernel-3.10.0-123.8.1.el7.x86_64
> >
> > Similar issue has already been reported and solved here:
> >
> >     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1003267
> >
> > This commit applies the solution in the link to ovs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw at nicira.com>
> Acked-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>
> > ---
> > Note:
> >     Not sure if we need to change the rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
> >     to 7.
> I am not sure either.
> > ---
> >  rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in |    3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in b/rhel/
> openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in
> > index 6dbb377..5d46838 100644
> > --- a/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in
> > +++ b/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in
> > @@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ export INSTALL_MOD_DIR=extra/%{oname}
> >  for flavor in %flavors_to_build ; do
> >           make -C %{kernel_source $flavor} modules_install \
> >                   M="`pwd`"/_$flavor/datapath/linux
> > +
> > +         # Cleanup unnecessary kernel-generated module dependency files.
> > +         find $INSTALL_MOD_PATH/lib/modules -iname 'modules.*' -exec rm
> {} \;
> >  done
> >  install -d %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/depmod.d/
> >  install -m 644 %{oname}.conf %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/depmod.d/
> > --
> > 1.7.9.5
> >
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