Hello World again,

Inline response follows.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Valentin Bud <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello World,
>
> Since this is my first post on this list I'd like to start it by thanking
> you for all the hard work you've put in this useful and beautiful
> technology.
>
> I have just installed openvswitch 1.8 from source on a Debian Squeeze
> 6.0.5. I have followed the well documented
> procedure available in INSTALL.Linux. Everything worked like a charm.
>
> The kernel module is now in $OVS_SRC/datapath/linux/openvswitch.ko. I can
> load it just fine using insmod. Maybe the question that follows is more
> related to Debian rather than OpenvSwitch and I apologize if that's the
> case.
>
> How will the OS know to load openvswitch.ko at reboot. Shouldn't the make
> install step install the module in /lib/modules? I think I can copy the
> module to
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.ko and this
> would work. Is this correct? And also copy the brcompat.ko if I need it.
>
> The INSTALL.Linux mentions that I can build a Debian package, I think that
> would install everything where it belongs. Haven't tried that yet to be
> perfectly honest. That's the next step.
>

I have just tried to build the *.deb package but I get the following error:

dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no
orig.tar file found
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b openvswitch gave error exit status
255

Exact steps I have made:

# git clone git://openvswitch.org/openvswitch

Installed build-essential, python-* dependencies, gcc, autoconf,
linux-headers-`uname -r` using apt-get.

# cd openvswitch ; ./boot.sh; ./configure --prefix=/usr
--localstatedir=/var --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
# make ; make install
# dpkg-buildpackage

Good Will,
v
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