Re: [vpp-dev] Avoid constant rebuilding of dpdk during the build process

2017-01-16 Thread Damjan Marion (damarion)
After discussion on the weekly call I improved my patch, and would like to ask people to give it a try and provide feedback. It is: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/4613/ It works as follows: - If there is no development package (vpp-dpdk-dev (deb) or vpp-dpdk-devel (rpm). It will just display wa

Re: [vpp-dev] Avoid constant rebuilding of dpdk during the build process

2017-01-10 Thread Damjan Marion (damarion)
> On 10 Jan 2017, at 11:54, Kinsella, Ray wrote: > > > Seems like a welcome, logical, incremental step towards using DPDK binary > packaging. > > Would it make sense to always first try to pull and install the binary > package from the nexus server. Yes, absolutely, we are fetching tons o

Re: [vpp-dev] Avoid constant rebuilding of dpdk during the build process

2017-01-10 Thread Kinsella, Ray
Seems like a welcome, logical, incremental step towards using DPDK binary packaging. Would it make sense to always first try to pull and install the binary package from the nexus server. Only building locally when either the download fails or when forced to do so. Then for those people who

[vpp-dev] Avoid constant rebuilding of dpdk during the build process

2017-01-09 Thread Damjan Marion (damarion)
Currently we are maintaining own set of DPDK patches and building DPDK from source, this is something which will unlikely change short term. Still it is quite time consuming and annoying that we are re-building dpdk over-and-over without real need to do so. I just submitted RFC patch to gerrit[