On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:25:47PM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 05:56:40PM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote:
>> > Presumably we should add a RHEL BuildRequires too.
>> I do not build rpm packages on a daily basis, but it looks like we do
>> not use BuildRequires tag to specify build dependencies.
>>
>> All I could find was this section in INSTALL.RHEL
>> >2. Install build prerequisites: yum install gcc make python-devel
>> >openssl-devel kernel-devel kernel-debug-devel autoconf automake rpm-build
>> >redhat-rpm-config
>>
>> Though, if I execute following command on latest Fedora distribution;
>> >sudo yum-builddep openvswitch
>> Then it automatically figures out all the build dependencies and even
>> graphviz is already there.
>>
>> Are these build dependencies handled out of band by RH and Fedora
>> maintainers? Do they add them each time before creating rpm packages
>> for their distribution?
>
> I guess the official Fedora (and RHEL) packaging must be different
> from what is in our tree.
That is what I concluded too. I just sent out a new patch with all the
changes that you suggested.
>
> There was a patch yesterday, still being discussed, to add a
> BuildRequires:
> http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-October/011616.html
>
> For now, then, let's just add this to INSTALL.RHEL.
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