[ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC] Drop support for RHEL 5 and 6

Guru Shetty guru at ovn.org
Thu May 25 15:21:11 UTC 2017


On 24 May 2017 at 16:51, Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:05:24AM -0700, Guru Shetty wrote:
> > On 15 May 2017 at 16:49, Joe Stringer <joe at ovn.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On 12 May 2017 at 07:45, Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > > > RHEL 6 is not supported anymore since it uses Python 2.6 and GCC
> 4.4.x,
> > > > but Open vSwitch needs, at least, Python 2.7 and GCC 4.6 to build
> > > correctly.
> > > >
> > > > http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/
> > > general/#build-requirements
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli at redhat.com>
> > >
> > > I think that people are still using this for Centos 7, so the name is
> > > just out of date. We could leave it as is or rename it to drop the
> > > numbering?
> > >
> > > Guru, any opinions?
> > >
> >
> > Ideally, we should just rename it to RHEL7 to avoid confusion.
>
> RHEL-7 should use Fedora instructions.  After this patch we plan to
> clean and rename the spec files to be more obvious.
>
> Then the problem becomes which names to use because Fedora moves
> faster than RHEL-7, so even if we manage to have a single spec file
> and documentation now, it doesn't mean that it will be the case in
> 5 years or more.
>
> I suspect the spec file should be openvswitch.spec and try our best
> to remain the only one and the documentation for Fedora should point
> to RHEL-7 documentation as a start.  Then we improve the docs when
> they need.
>
> How does that sound to you?
>

Stepping back a little, the fundamental challenge is lack of
'force-reload-kmod' in fedora systemd files. The OVS repo supplies its own
kernel module, so we need a mechanism to upgrade OVS kernel modules when we
upgrade OVS. I haven't been following systemd advancements. Do you know
whether there are mechanisms where we can call additional commands like
'force-reload-kmod' in systemd?



>
> --
> Flavio
>
>


More information about the dev mailing list