On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 7:33 AM Ales Musil <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 12:27 PM Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 3/9/26 5:56 PM, Rosemarie O'Riorden via dev wrote:
>> > Add --with-version-suffix as a configure option for downstream
>> > CentOS/RHEL compatibility. Because their packages are built from stable
>> > branches rather than exact release tags, this allows the exact commits
>> > included in a build to be accurately reflected in the version string.
>> >
>> > Now when checking the version of OVN components, this suffix will
>> > be present.
>> >
>> > This commit mirrors the same option which was recently added to OVS.
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>> > An example of how to use this when configuring is:
>> > ./configure --with-version-suffix=-33.el9
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>> > Reported-at: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FDP-1904
>> > Signed-off-by: Rosemarie O'Riorden <[email protected]>
>> > ---
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>> Hi Rosemarie,
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>> Thanks for the patch, it looks good to me so I applied it to the main
>> branch.
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>> I think we could also consider backporting this to all stable branches
>> to make distro maintainer lives easier.  CC-ing all other OVN
>> maintainers and Ilya to see what they think.
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>> Regards,
>> Dumitru
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> Thank you  Rosemarie and Dumitru,
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> +1 from my side on backport, this definitely makes it easier to figure out 
> the proper version just from logs.

+1

Thanks
Numan

>
> Regards,
> Ales
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