[ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel: Clarify instructions for RHEL 7.

[Russell Bryant]

On 01/29/2016 12:04 PM, Thomas F Herbert wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/28/16 3:46 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
>> On 01/28/2016 02:55 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
>>> On 01/28/2016 12:56 PM, Guru Shetty wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 28 January 2016 at 08:46, Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org
>>>> <mailto:russell at ovn.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      The rpm build instructions did not clarify what spec files were
>>>> to be
>>>>      used for RHEL 7 and its derivatives.  Clarify that you're actually
>>>>      supposed to use the spec files called "fedora" for RHEL 7 right
>>>> now.
>>>>
>>>>      Update references to Fedora versions to reflect the current
>>>> release
>>>>      (23), as neither 16 or 17 are supported releases anymore.
>>>>
>>>>      Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org
>>>> <mailto:russell at ovn.org>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think openvswitch-kmod-fedora has been an orphan for a long time. I
>>>> think that is because the users in fedora get a more upto date kernel
>>>> module from Linux kernel itself. It probably still builds, but it will
>>>> likely not be picked up with modprobe because there is till the native
>>>> kernel module.
>>> It seems worth keeping for testing WIP features, at least.
>>>
>>> It doesn't build for me, though.  The error I get is that it's trying to
>>> create a directory outside of the $RPM_BUILD_ROOT during "make
>>> modules_install".
>>>
>>> I'm building using:
>>>
>>> $ rpmbuild -bb -D "kversion `uname -r`"
>>> rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> mkdir: cannot create directory
>>> '/lib/modules/4.3.3-300.fc23.x86_64/extra': Permission denied
>>>
>>>
>>> I was looking at how to pass $RPM_BUILD_ROOT into there properly, but I
>>> got distracted before I got it to work.
>>>
>> I just posted another patch which makes it build on Fedora 23 for me, at
>> least.
> Kmod builds and installs perfectly on Centos7 using Fedora spec without
> patch.

How did you build it?  Did you run rpmbuild directly?  If so, did you
run it as root?

Running rpmbuild as root with the current spec will install the kernel
modules into your system's /lib/modules/ directory as a part of the rpm
build.  That's what broke for me (since I wasn't root).

-- 
Russell Bryant