Hey all-
This isn't really germaine to dpdk development, but Thomas and Vincent,
you expressed interest in my progress regarding packaging of dpdk for Fedora, so
I figured I would post here in case others were interested.
Please find here:
http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/dpdk-1.7.0-0.1.gitb20539d68.src.rpm
My current effort to do so. I've made some changes from the stock spec file
included in dpdk:
* Modified the version and release values to be separate from the name. I did
some reading on requirements for packaging and it seems we can be a bit more lax
with ABI version on a pre-release I think, so I setup the N-V-R to use
pre-release conventions, which makes sense, give that this is a 1.7.0
pre-release. The git tag on the relase value will get bumped as we move forward
in the patch series.
* Added config files to match desired configs for Fedora (i.e. disabled PMD's
that require out of tree kernel modules
* Removed Packager tag (Fedora doesn't use those)
* Moved the package target directories to include N-V of the package in the path
names. This allows for multiple versions of the dpdk to be installed in
parallel (I.e. dpdk-1.7.0 files are in /lib/dpdk-1.7.0, /usr/include/dpdk-1.7.0,
etc). This is how java packages allow for multiple version installs, and makes
sense given ABI instability in dpdk. It will require that developers add some
-I / -L paths to their makefiles to pull the proper version, but I think thats a
fair tradeoff.
My plan is to go through the review process with this package, and update to
tagged 1.7.0 as soon as its ready.
Neil
