On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 1:22 PM David Marchand <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 3:53 PM Frode Nordahl > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The packaging source in the OVS repository has drifted away from > > what is currently in Debian and Ubuntu. This state is problematic > > because from time to time someone tries to build packages from the > > upstream OVS debian package source and then expect that package to > > work with up-/down-grades from-/to/ distro versions. > > > > To support the on-going work to remove the out of tree OVS kernel > > driver from the repository [0], an update to the debian packaging > > is also required. On the back of the discussion in [0] we agreed > > that replacing the current version with what Debian and Ubuntu > > is currently converging on would be preferable. > > > > This commit is a first in a series to update the upstream OVS > > debian packaging source to be up to date with what is currently > > in Debian and Ubuntu. > > > > 0: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2022-June/394634.html > > > > Signed-off-by: Frode Nordahl <[email protected]> > > There are some leftover mentions of the some deb packages in > Documentation/intro/install/distributions.rst and > Documentation/tutorials/ipsec.rst after this patch. > Not sure where this would best fit in the series... but since later > patch don't reintroduce dkms stuff, I would drop this mention either > in this current patch or in a next separate patch before going on with > the rest of the changes.
Thank you for pointing that out, I had forgotten about the documentation part of this work. I'll add that to the next series. -- Frode Nordahl > > -- > David Marchand > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
