[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/3] RHEL: update rpm build instructions after trying them with CentOS 7

Ansis Atteka aatteka at nicira.com
Sun Oct 4 22:20:09 UTC 2015


Mention:
1. that these instructions have been tested with CentOS 7 (which is
   almost identical distribution to RHEL 7).
2. directory where rpm packages that were just built can be found.
3. mention SElinux implications that could prevent OVS from starting,
   if not using designated OVS directories.

Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatteka at nicira.com>
---
 INSTALL.RHEL.md | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL.RHEL.md b/INSTALL.RHEL.md
index 8746bc6..9aefc09 100644
--- a/INSTALL.RHEL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.RHEL.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This document describes how to build and install Open vSwitch on a Red
 Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) host.  If you want to install Open vSwitch
 on a generic Linux host, see [INSTALL.md] instead.
 
-We have tested these instructions with RHEL 5.6 and RHEL 6.0.
+We have tested these instructions with RHEL 5.6 and RHEL 6.0 and CentOS 7.
 
 Building Open vSwitch for RHEL
 ------------------------------
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES.
    directory.  Then unpack the tarball and "cd" into its root, e.g.:
 
        ```
+       cd $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES
        tar xzf openvswitch-x.y.z.tar.gz
        cd openvswitch-x.y.z
 	   ```
@@ -139,6 +140,8 @@ $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES.
 		rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
 	```
 
+10. Find the created packages in $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS directory
+
    This produces an "kmod-openvswitch" RPM for each kernel variant, in
    this example: "kmod-openvswitch", "kmod-openvswitch-debug", and
    "kmod-openvswitch-kdump".
@@ -149,6 +152,12 @@ Geneve, GRE, VXLAN, LISP etc., they will either have to manually add iptables
 firewall rules to allow the tunnel traffic or add it through a startup script
 (Please refer to the "enable-protocol" command in the ovs-ctl(8) manpage).
 
+RHEL based distributions nowadays ship with SElinux enabled in enforcing mode
+by default.  This means that, if you have problems starting Open vSwitch, then
+first check that Open vSwitch is configured to run inside its SElinux confined
+area.  For more details see "man (8) openvswitch_selinux" that is distributed
+with selinux-policy-devel package on your distribution.
+
 Red Hat Network Scripts Integration
 -----------------------------------
 
-- 
2.1.4




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