[ovs-discuss] [installation problem] Installation of OVS 2.3.1 from the tarball on Citrix Xen Server 6.5

[Po-Ching Lin]

Dear Ben,

         Thank you very much for the information.

         The following piece of code seems to be part of a Python program. Would you
mind providing us the complete program? Although we can "run" the program in our
minds, the values of some variables are still missing, such as ovs_spec,rpmbuilddir
and setarch. By the way, where can we find the buildnum for the stable openvswitch-2.3.1
tarball? Sorry for more questions. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Po-Ching

Ben Pfaff On 2015/4/16 下午 11:09 wrote:
> Here's what we use for XenServer 6.5 and other 64-bit versions of
> XenServer:
>
>                  kernel_name = 'xen'
>                  cmd = "rpm -qa | grep kernel-devel"
>                  output = self.get_output_from_command(cmd)
>                  kernel_version = re.sub('.*-devel-', '', output)
>                  # Get the build symlink in /lib/modules from
>                  # kernel-devel file list for xen_version
>                  cmd = "rpm -ql kernel-devel | grep 'lib/modules' | head -1"
>                  output = self.get_output_from_command(cmd)
>                  xen_version = re.sub('/lib/modules/', '',
>                                       re.sub('/build', '', output))
>
>                  ovsver = "-D \"openvswitch_version %s.%s\"" % (version,
>                                                                 buildnum)
>                  kname = "-D \"kernel_name %s\"" % kernel_name
>                  kver = "-D \"kernel_version %s\"" % kernel_version
>                  xver = "-D \"xen_version %s\"" % xen_version
>                  spec = "-bb %s/SPECS/%s" % (rpmbuilddir, ovs_spec)
>                  spec_opts = "%s %s %s %s %s" % (ovsver, kname, kver,
>                                                  xver, spec)
>
>                  cmd = "%s rpmbuild %s" % (setarch, spec_opts)
>                  self.run_command(cmd, halt_on_failure=True)
>