[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] rhel: Make python 2.7 a requirement of build.

Gurucharan Shetty shettyg at nicira.com
Tue Sep 22 14:22:03 UTC 2015


On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 09:30:30AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
>> diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in b/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in
>> index dad3e04..642986b 100644
>> --- a/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in
>> +++ b/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in
>> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ License: ASL 2.0
>>  Release: 1
>>  Source: openvswitch-%{version}.tar.gz
>>  Buildroot: /tmp/openvswitch-rpm
>> -Requires: logrotate, python
>> +Requires: logrotate, python >= 2.7
>
> I think this will break CentOS-6.x and RHEL-6.x because they don't
> have python 2.7 RPMs yet.

So, OVS master needs python 2.7. (I was able to install python 2.7
from sources on CentOS 6). We have the same problem for Xenserver
platforms too. There was a long discussion sometime back where the
decision for made to move to python 2.7. I don't know what is a good
way to solve this predicament.


>
> fbl
>



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