[ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel: Add libcap-ng dependency.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Oct 1 19:54:32 UTC 2015


On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 03:50:35PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> Commit e91b927d8966bfcb9768225392324dde4fd7d7f6 added optional usage of
> the libcap-ng library.  It's packaged in Fedora, so go ahead and added
> it to the Fedora spec file.
> 
> Our default systemd unit files don't make use of the --user option that
> requires this library, but conceivably someone may want to customize
> them and use this option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com>

I'd consider also adding --with-libcapng=yes to the configure command
line.  That way, a build without libcap-ng installed will fail.  That
will both root out problems in whatever RPM autobuilders happen to be
running against OVS and make sure that every RPM build supports
libcap-ng.



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