On 10/06/2015 08:20 PM, Flavio Leitner wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 03:20:08PM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote: >> Mention: >> 1. that these instructions have been tested with Fedora 22. >> 2. dependencies that need to be installed on Fedora 22. Otherwise, >> rpmbuild command simply fails. >> 3. that rpmdev-setuptree utility can be used to create rpmbuild >> directory under $HOME, if one doesn't exist already. >> 4. directory where rpm packages that were just built can be found. >> 5. mention SElinux implications that could prevent OVS from starting, >> if not using designated OVS directories. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatt...@nicira.com> >> --- >> INSTALL.Fedora.md | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ >> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/INSTALL.Fedora.md b/INSTALL.Fedora.md >> index 75b6375..02d99be 100644 >> --- a/INSTALL.Fedora.md >> +++ b/INSTALL.Fedora.md >> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This document describes how to build and install Open >> vSwitch on a Fedora >> Linux host. If you want to install Open vSwitch on a generic Linux host, >> see [INSTALL.md] instead. >> >> -We have tested these instructions with Fedora 16 and Fedora 17. >> +We have tested these instructions with Fedora 16, Fedora 17 and Fedora 22. > > I am maintaining OVS on F21, F22, F23 and F24. I don't know the > current state of F16 and F17 though the RPM instructions should be > the same. > > >> Building Open vSwitch for Fedora >> -------------------------------- >> @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ the top-level: >> 4. SPECS/ Contains the spec files for each package to be built. >> 5. SRPMS/ Where the newly created source package files are written. >> >> +If these directories do not exist on your system by default (as in Fedora >> 22), >> +then use rpmdev-setuptree utility to create them. >> + >> Before you begin, note the RPM sources directory on your version of >> Fedora. The command "rpmbuild --showrc" will show the configuration >> for each of those directories. Alternatively, the command "rpm --eval >> @@ -30,7 +33,16 @@ for the sources directory. On Fedora 17, the default RPM >> _topdir is >> $HOME/rpmbuild and the default RPM sources directory is >> $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES. >> >> -1. If you are building from a distribution tarball, skip to step 2. >> +1. Install build prerequisites with dnf (or yum on older Fedora versions): >> + >> + ``` >> + dnf install gcc make python-devel openssl-devel kernel-devel graphviz \ >> + kernel-debug-devel autoconf automake rpm-build redhat-rpm-config \ >> + libtool pyqt4 groff libcap-ng-devel python-twisted-core \ >> + python-zope-interface >> + ``` >> + > > I am not sure if that list is complete. I use yum-builddep <spec> > to install all the build requisites. The nice thing about it is that > when libcap-ng-devel deps was added, the documentation would remain > updated. > > For dnf I think it's dnf builddep --spec <spec>
Another approach would be to change the instructions to build the package using mock. That's actually what I'd prefer, I just hadn't gotten around to documenting it and proposing it properly. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
