[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] rhel: Add depmod file for openvswitch moduule search
Gregory Rose
gvrose8192 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 00:20:49 UTC 2018
On 1/11/2018 4:13 PM, Greg Rose wrote:
> From: Greg Rose <roseg at vmware.com>
I forgot to reset the author on this patch - it is Guru.
- Greg
>
> There are occasions when an openvswitch kernel module rpm which does
> not match the exact build number of the running kernel. In that
> case the openvswitch kernel modules will be installed to the
> "weak-updates" directory under the /lib/modules/$(uname -r)
> directory. But the new kernel modules will not be found because
> the default /etc/depmod.d/dist.conf search path lists weak-updates
> last.
>
> This patch creates a file in /etc/depmod.d/ named 01openvswitch.conf.
> This file specifies weak-updates first in the search path and since
> it is named with a preceeding "01" it will be found first by depmod.
>
> This resolves issues with customers who have installed openvswitch
> kernel modules previously and a kernel upgrade has occurred since
> and when the kernel minor build numbers do not exactly match the
> running kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>
> ---
> rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in | 10 ++++++----
> rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in b/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in
> index 8413b25..a7f4832 100644
> --- a/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in
> +++ b/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in
> @@ -62,17 +62,19 @@ for flavor in %flavors_to_build ; do
> find $INSTALL_MOD_PATH/lib/modules -iname 'modules.*' -exec rm {} \;
> done
> install -d %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/depmod.d/
> +
> +echo "search extra/openvswitch weak-updates/openvswitch updates extra built-in weak-updates" >> 01%{oname}.conf
> for module in %{buildroot}/lib/modules/%{kernel_version}/$INSTALL_MOD_DIR/*.ko;
> do
> modname="$(basename ${module})"
> - echo "override ${modname%.ko} * extra/%{oname}" >> %{oname}.conf
> - echo "override ${modname%.ko} * weak-updates/%{oname}" >> %{oname}.conf
> + echo "override ${modname%.ko} * extra/%{oname}" >> 01%{oname}.conf
> + echo "override ${modname%.ko} * weak-updates/%{oname}" >> 01%{oname}.conf
> done
> -install -m 644 %{oname}.conf %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/depmod.d/
> +install -m 644 01%{oname}.conf %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/depmod.d/
>
> %files
> %defattr(644,root,root)
> -/etc/depmod.d/%{oname}.conf
> +/etc/depmod.d/01%{oname}.conf
>
> %clean
> rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files b/rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files
> index 357c2e8..49262f3 100644
> --- a/rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files
> +++ b/rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files
> @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
> %defattr(644,root,root,755)
> /lib/modules/%2-%1
> -/etc/depmod.d/openvswitch.conf
> +/etc/depmod.d/01openvswitch.conf
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