Hi Tom, I assume you are talking about the rpm packaging, and not the RPM_DEPENDS from the root Makefile, right ? If so then feel free to remove it, as I believe it is only needed to run the tests. Otherwise I still believe it should be part of the "make install-dep" target.
Best regards, On 5 March 2018 at 18:05, Thomas F Herbert <therb...@redhat.com> wrote: > Garbriel and all, > > I am working on the release packaging for 18.01.1 for Centos. > > I want to discuss the subunit requirement in deps and in the spec file > originally introduced in this patch. > > https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?p=vpp.git;a=commitdiff;h= > d3e671e0dbb879d90f00bdee608ee0bb5f6357ae > > Although subunit is in Fedora (and EPEL), it is not available in Centos so > the subunit requirement breaks release builds for Centos. > > The following patch was merged in October and cherry-picked into 1710 > which made this requirement Fedora only. > > e41289115ffb24d95a5d0bc2ef33001d06a28688 > > Subsequently in this commit > > b8bbd6521fbab6579e4c571f61489f995f56bc78, it was made a requirement for > Centos as well. > > I want to propose an upstream patch to remove the subunit requirement for > Centos but I should check with everyone as to the implications. > > --Tom > -- > *Thomas F Herbert* > NFV and Fast Data Planes > Networking Group Office of the CTO > *Red Hat* > > > -- Gabriel Ganne
