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List:       openvswitch-discuss
Subject:    [ovs-discuss] Having problems installing OVS in Fedora 15
From:       fbl () redhat ! com (Flavio Leitner)
Date:       2014-06-30 17:29:25
Message-ID: 20140630172925.GB2241 () t520 ! home
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:41:11PM +0530, Sanghamitra De wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> Thanks for the patch. From Flavio's email which said:
> 
> "Usually the rpmbuild topdir is /usr/src/<something> but it can be changed
> by a custom .rpmmacro file defining %_topdir.
> 
> Yours seems to be at /root/rpmbuild.  That's your rpm build directory. On
> top of it, you should have SPECS/ and SOURCES/. So, copy the tarball to
> /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ instead and run the rpmbuild command again.  The
> result should be in /root/rpmbuild/RPMS."
> 
>  I gave these commands & I'm still stuck ...
> 
> The command sequence i gave was:
> 
> [root at node5 rpmbuild]# ls -l
> 
> 
> total 24
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 30 10:28 BUILD
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 30 10:28 BUILDROOT
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 30 10:28 RPMS
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 30 10:28 SOURCES
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 30 10:28 SPECS
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 30 10:28 SRPMS
> 
> [root at node5 rpmbuild]# mv /usr/src/openvswitch-1.9.3
> /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
> [root at node5 rpmbuild]# cd SOURCES
> [root at node5 SOURCES]# ls -l
> total 4
> drwxrwxr-x 17 1000 1000 4096 Sep  5  2013 openvswitch-1.9.3

You need to put the openvswitch tarball (packed) in the SOURCES/,
not the unpacked sources.


> [root at node5 SOURCES]# rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec

This should be executed inside of openvswitch sources.

> error: failed to stat
> /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec: No such file
> or directory

Yeah, you're in the wrong directory.  The rpmbuild command should be
executed inside of the unpacked openvswitch sources.

This is the high level 2 steps:

1) Put the openvswitch tarball into rpm SOURCES/ directory:
 1.a) if you got the tarball, just copy the file there.
 1.b) Otherwise, you need to build the tarball, then get into the
     openvswitch sources and run "./boot.sh; ./configure; make dist"
     and the result is the tarball which you need to copy to the
     rpm SOURCES/ directory.

2) Fire the build: 
2.a) If you had the tarball, copy it somewhere else and open it.

Now get inside of openvswitch sources.  There is a directory called
rhel/ with the spec file.  You just need to fire the build:
ovssourcedir/ $ rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec

fbl

> 
>                                                         [root at node5
> SOURCES]# cd ..
> 
>                                    [root at node5 rpmbuild]# cd ..
> [root at node5 ~]# rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
> error: failed to stat /root/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec: No such
> file or directory
> 
> 
> Kindly note since the patch says: Unpack the distribution tarball into
> a temporary directory and "cd" into the root of the distribution
> tarball.
> 
> it means i got to "cd"  into # since i put the unpacked tarball inside
> SOURCES and run rpmbuild -bb from # right?
> 
> 
> I have this feeling that im probably running rpmbuild -bb while being
> in the wrong directory.
> 
> Where did i go wrong???
> 
> 
> Best Wishes & Thanks again
> 
> Sanghamitra
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 09:24:18PM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:22:45AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > Usually the rpmbuild topdir is /usr/src/<something> but it can
> > > > > be changed by a custom .rpmmacro file defining %_topdir.
> > > >
> > > > Flavio, I'm pretty deeply ignorant of Red Hat practices.
> >  INSTALL.Fedora
> > > > says:
> > > >
> > > >      Before you begin, note the RPM source directory on your version of
> > > >      Fedora.  On Fedora 17, it is $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES.
> > > >
> > > > and INSTALL.RHEL says:
> > > >
> > > >     Before you begin, note the RPM source directory on your version of
> > > >     RHEL.  On RHEL 5, the default RPM source directory is
> > > >     /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES.  On RHEL 6, it is $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES.
> > > >
> > > > but I do not know whether either of those is exactly correct, only
> > that they
> > > > worked for me at the time I developed the instructions.  Should they be
> > > > corrected or clarified?
> > >
> > > It can be clarified a bit more, so I posted a patch adding more details
> > > to those sections. Please take a look.
> > > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2014-June/042251.html
> >
> > Great, thank you!
> >

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