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
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