On 01/28/2016 02:55 PM, Russell Bryant wrote: > On 01/28/2016 12:56 PM, Guru Shetty wrote: >> >> >> On 28 January 2016 at 08:46, Russell Bryant <russ...@ovn.org >> <mailto:russ...@ovn.org>> wrote: >> >> The rpm build instructions did not clarify what spec files were to be >> used for RHEL 7 and its derivatives. Clarify that you're actually >> supposed to use the spec files called "fedora" for RHEL 7 right now. >> >> Update references to Fedora versions to reflect the current release >> (23), as neither 16 or 17 are supported releases anymore. >> >> Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russ...@ovn.org <mailto:russ...@ovn.org>> >> >> >> I think openvswitch-kmod-fedora has been an orphan for a long time. I >> think that is because the users in fedora get a more upto date kernel >> module from Linux kernel itself. It probably still builds, but it will >> likely not be picked up with modprobe because there is till the native >> kernel module. > > It seems worth keeping for testing WIP features, at least. > > It doesn't build for me, though. The error I get is that it's trying to > create a directory outside of the $RPM_BUILD_ROOT during "make > modules_install". > > I'm building using: > > $ rpmbuild -bb -D "kversion `uname -r`" rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec > > ... > > mkdir: cannot create directory > '/lib/modules/4.3.3-300.fc23.x86_64/extra': Permission denied > > > I was looking at how to pass $RPM_BUILD_ROOT into there properly, but I > got distracted before I got it to work. >
I just posted another patch which makes it build on Fedora 23 for me, at least. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
