On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 6:16 PM Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 12:29:20AM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: > > On 08/08/2018 09:01 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > [asking some random SuSE and Red Hat people] > > > > > > It had somehow slipped past my notice before that the spec files we > have > > > are useful for SuSE as well as Red Hat. Should we make the directory > or > > > file names more generic? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Ben. > > > > > Hello Ben, > > > > The SUSE spec file[1] mostly matches the rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in > > one from the OvS tree, but because of the different packaging policies > > between the two distributions, we need to adapt it a little bit. Our > > spec file is also adapted to build on RHEL and SUSE (note all the %if > > 0%{?suse_version} blocks there). > > > > The rhel/ directory currently has quite a few spec files and most of > > them only make sense for RHEL. I can perhaps commit the spec file from > > [1] as openvswitch-suse.spec.in and then we can rename the directory to > > 'rpm' since it would then hold spec files for multiple distros. Would > > that work? > > OK, I misunderstood. I had the mistaken idea from one of your messages > that SuSE was using the same specs file as Fedora, verbatim. > > Personally, I'd rather move all the distro packaging out of OVS, because > distro packagers are good at packaging and OVS developers generally > aren't. So, unless it would actually make your job easier, let's keep > things as is. >
I would agree that moving it all out of OVS would make sense., but I'm in no hurry to propose it myself. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev