On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 06:55:34PM -0700, Brandon Heller wrote:
> I'd like to build Debian packages for OVS that work with a custom kernel. I
> see that these are built already for stock Ubuntu kernels at
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvswitch and for Ubuntu natty at
> http://openvswitch.org/releases/binaries/1.2.2.10448/natty_amd64/
The description of the openvswitch-datapath-source package says:
This package provides the Open vSwitch datapath module source code
that is needed by openvswitch-switch. The kernel module can be built
from it using module-assistant or make-kpkg. README.Debian in this
package provides further instructions.
README.Debian in that package says:
Open vSwitch for Debian
----------------------
* How do I build this module the Debian way?
- Building with module-assistant:
$ module-assistant auto-install openvswitch-datapath
or
$ m-a a-i openvswitch-datapath
If kernel source or headers are in a non-standard directory, add
the option -k /path/to/kernel/source with the correct path.
- Building with make-kpkg
$ cd /usr/src/
$ tar jxvf openvswitch.tar.bz2
$ cd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.26
$ make-kpkg --added-modules=openvswitch modules
- Building without make-kpkg
$ cd /usr/src/
$ tar jxvf openvswitch.tar.bz2
$ cd modules/openvswitch
$ fakeroot debian/rules kdist_image
If you run this as root, fakeroot is not needed.
-- Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>, Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:51:28 -0700
The description of the openvswitch-datapath-dkms package says:
This package provides the Open vSwitch datapath module source code
that is needed by openvswitch-switch. DKMS can built the kernel
module from it.
If you happen to forget and install openvswitch-switch without a kernel
module, then at install time it should print:
Module has probably not been built for this kernel. Install the
openvswitch-datapath-source package, then read
/usr/share/doc/openvswitch-datapath-source/README.Debian
What can we do to make this easy to understand?
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