One or two people have expressed surprise to me that there are no installation instructions at the top level. This should help. (The content is copied from README.rst.)
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> --- INSTALL.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ Makefile.am | 1 + 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 INSTALL.rst diff --git a/INSTALL.rst b/INSTALL.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..07268033188a --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL.rst @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Installing Open vSwitch +----------------------- + +To install Open vSwitch on a regular Linux or FreeBSD host, please read the +`installation guide <Documentation/intro/install/general.rst>`__. For specifics +around installation on a specific platform, refer to one of the `other +installation guides <Documentation/intro/install/index.rst>`__ + +Contact +------- + [email protected] diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index c853085b9ca9..6ad50b6af391 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \ AUTHORS.rst \ CONTRIBUTING.rst \ MAINTAINERS.rst \ + INSTALL.rst \ README.rst \ NOTICE \ .travis.yml \ -- 2.10.2 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
