On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 12:27 PM Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3/9/26 5:56 PM, Rosemarie O'Riorden via dev wrote:
> > Add --with-version-suffix as a configure option for downstream
> > CentOS/RHEL compatibility. Because their packages are built from stable
> > branches rather than exact release tags, this allows the exact commits
> > included in a build to be accurately reflected in the version string.
> >
> > Now when checking the version of OVN components, this suffix will
> > be present.
> >
> > This commit mirrors the same option which was recently added to OVS.
> >
> > An example of how to use this when configuring is:
> > ./configure --with-version-suffix=-33.el9
> >
> > Reported-at: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FDP-1904
> > Signed-off-by: Rosemarie O'Riorden <[email protected]>
> > ---
>
> Hi Rosemarie,
>
> Thanks for the patch, it looks good to me so I applied it to the main
> branch.
>
> I think we could also consider backporting this to all stable branches
> to make distro maintainer lives easier.  CC-ing all other OVN
> maintainers and Ilya to see what they think.
>
> Regards,
> Dumitru
>
>
Thank you  Rosemarie and Dumitru,

+1 from my side on backport, this definitely makes it easier to figure out
the proper version just from logs.

Regards,
Ales
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