On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Kyle Mestery <mest...@mestery.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Ansis Atteka <aatt...@nicira.com> 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. >> > Is the RPM build still tested for Fedora 16 and 17 at this point? Is that > automated? If not, maybe those can be removed.
Thanks for the review! Indeed, according to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(operating_system)] Fedora 20 and older are marked as "old" which, I guess, implies that no one is supporting them anymore and I don't see a reason why latest OVS should claim to support old Fedora versions too. Will remove the claimed support for older Fedora versions as you suggested. > >> 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 >> + ``` >> + >> +2. If you are building from a distribution tarball, skip to step 2. >> Otherwise, you must be building from an Open vSwitch Git tree. >> Create a distribution tarball from the root of the Git tree by >> running: >> @@ -41,21 +53,22 @@ $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES. >> make dist >> ``` >> >> -2. Now you have a distribution tarball, named something like >> +3. Now you have a distribution tarball, named something like >> openvswitch-x.y.z.tar.gz. Copy this file into the RPM sources >> directory, e.g.: >> >> `cp openvswitch-x.y.z.tar.gz $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES` >> >> -3. Make another copy of the distribution tarball in a temporary >> +4. Make another copy of the distribution tarball in a temporary >> directory. Then unpack the tarball and "cd" into its root, e.g.: >> >> ``` >> + cd $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES >> tar xzf openvswitch-x.y.z.tar.gz >> cd openvswitch-x.y.z >> ``` >> >> -4. To build Open vSwitch userspace, run: >> +5. To build Open vSwitch userspace, run: >> >> `rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec` >> >> @@ -66,7 +79,7 @@ $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES. >> >> `rpmbuild -bb --without check rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec` >> >> -5. On Fedora 17, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module, run: >> +6. On Fedora 17, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module, run: >> >> `rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec` >> >> @@ -83,6 +96,14 @@ $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES. >> in this example: "kmod-openvswitch", "kmod-openvswitch-debug", and >> "kmod-openvswitch-kdump". >> >> +7. Find the created packages in $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS directory. >> + >> +Fedora based distributions nowadays ship with SElinux enabled in >> enforcing mode >> +by default. This means that, if you have problems starting Open vSwitch, >> then >> +first check that Open vSwitch is configured to run inside its SElinux >> confined >> +area. For more details see "man (8) openvswitch_selinux" that is >> distributed >> +with selinux-policy-devel package on your distribution. >> + >> Reporting Bugs >> -------------- >> >> -- >> 2.1.4 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> dev@openvswitch.org >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
