[ovs-discuss] Problems by building Open vSwitch on Centos 6.3 x86_64

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Aug 15 21:20:09 UTC 2012


I don't think we've tested on Centos 6.3.

If you can provide a fix, please do so, so that we can help other
Centos 6.3 users.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Tommaso Cereghetti
<tcereghetti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm trying to build the Open vSwitch on a Centos 6.3 x86_64 updated.
>
> I follow your istructions: How to Install Open vSwitch on Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux
> http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.RHEL;hb=a359d5ad700c7175c75134cce3cee8d87d19d67c
>
> Here the protocol with two errors (?):
>
> $ mkdir rpmbuild
> $ cd rpmbuild/
> $ mkdir SOURCES
> $ cd SOURCES/
> $ wget http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-1.7.0.tar.gz
> $ tar -xzf openvswitch-1.7.0.tar.gz
> $ cd openvswitch-1.7.0
> # yum -y install rpm-build gcc openssl-devel make
> $ rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch.spec
>
> In the documentation: This produces two RPMs: "openvswitch" and
> "openvswitch-debuginfo".
> But:
> $ ls ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/
> openvswitch-1.7.0-1.x86_64.rpm
>
> One RPM is missing.
>
> # yum -y install redhat-rpm-config kernel-debug-devel crash-devel
> $ rpmbuild -bb -D "kversion 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64" -D "kflavors default
> debug kdump" rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
> error: Failed build dependencies:
>         kernel-kdump-devel is needed by openvswitch-kmod-1.7.0-1.el6.x86_64
>
> I do not find a package kernel-kdump-devel or similar in Centos (6.3).
> Do you know the problem?
>
>
> Than you and regards,
>
> Tommaso
>
>
>
>
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