On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 09:43:34PM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 04:47:02PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> > On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 07:20:41PM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
>> > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 01:46:52PM -0700, Pravin Shelar wrote:
>> > > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
>> > > > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 12:40:34PM -0700, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
>> > > > >> Add usage info for ovs-vswitchd dpdk option. Update
>> > > > >> INSTALL.DPDK file.
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >> Reported-by: Hari Sasank Bhamidipalli <hbham...@cisco.com>
>> > > > >> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com>
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I see that this references INSTALL.DPDK from the --help message. It
>> > > > > looks like there's only a few sentences in INSTALL.DPDK on the --dpdk
>> > > > > option. To me, that makes it seem like it would be easy enough to
>> > > > > add
>> > > > > those sentences to ovs-vswitchd(8), and then people would easily find
>> > > > > the documentation in the expected place.
>> > > >
>> > > > I thought abut that.
>> > > > But just having --dpdk option does not work. User will have to refer
>> > > > INSTALL.DPDK doc for other setup steps. So rather than reading two
>> > > > docs, user can have all information about dpdk setup in INSTALL.DPDK.
>> > > >
>> > > > I can add a pointer to INSTALL.DPDK in man page, what do you think?
>> > >
>> > > I don't think INSTALL.DPDK is packaged in any distro, so pointing to
>> > > that file doesn't help much if you got ovs from .deb or .rpm packages.
>> > >
>> > > Perhaps dpdk setup deserves a man-page itself and the --dpdk help
>> > > could point to that man-page.
>> >
>> > That's probably for the best.
>> >
>> > As an alternative, it would be easy to install INSTALL.DPDK, e.g. for
>> > Debian I think all you need is:
>> >
>> > diff --git a/debian/openvswitch-common.docs
>> > b/debian/openvswitch-common.docs
>> > index d6360a1..3bd2ca3 100644
>> > --- a/debian/openvswitch-common.docs
>> > +++ b/debian/openvswitch-common.docs
>> > @@ -1 +1,2 @@
>> > FAQ
>> > +INSTALL.DPDK
>>
>> Here is what you need for the rpm spec files to put together
>> with your patch. I am adding more files because they are useful
>> too. Feel free to remove them if you don't agree.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <f...@redhat.com>
>>
>> diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in
>> b/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in
>> index 30fe439..9f66f41 100644
>> --- a/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in
>> +++ b/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in
>> @@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ systemctl start openvswitch.service
>> %doc /usr/share/man/man8/ovs-test.8.gz
>> %doc /usr/share/man/man8/ovs-l3ping.8.gz
>> %doc /usr/share/man/man8/vtep-ctl.8.gz
>> +%doc COPYING DESIGN INSTALL.SSL NOTICE README WHY-OVS FAQ NEWS INSTALL.DPDK
>> /var/lib/openvswitch
>> /var/log/openvswitch
>> /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-ctl
>> diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in b/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in
>> index c817cce..251cfe5 100644
>> --- a/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in
>> +++ b/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in
>> @@ -55,9 +55,6 @@ rhel_cp etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifup-ovs 0755
>> rhel_cp etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifdown-ovs 0755
>> rhel_cp usr_share_openvswitch_scripts_sysconfig.template 0644
>>
>> -docdir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/doc/openvswitch-%{version}
>> -install -d -m755 "$docdir"
>> -install -m 0644 FAQ rhel/README.RHEL "$docdir"
>> install python/compat/uuid.py $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/openvswitch/python
>> install python/compat/argparse.py
>> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/openvswitch/python
>>
>> @@ -175,7 +172,7 @@ exit 0
>> /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/sysconfig.template
>> /usr/share/openvswitch/vswitch.ovsschema
>> /usr/share/openvswitch/vtep.ovsschema
>> -/usr/share/doc/openvswitch-%{version}/FAQ
>> -/usr/share/doc/openvswitch-%{version}/README.RHEL
>> +%doc COPYING DESIGN INSTALL.SSL NOTICE README WHY-OVS FAQ NEWS
>> +%doc INSTALL.DPDK rhel/README.RHEL
>> /var/lib/openvswitch
>> /var/log/openvswitch
>
> Pravin, are you willing to fold these changes (to the Debian and RHEL
> packaging) into your documentation update? If not, let me know, and I
> will formally write them up myself.
I am planning on sending two separate patches one for dpdk
documentation and one for packaging related changes.
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