On 3/10/26 1:10 PM, Ilya Maximets wrote: > On 3/10/26 12:27 PM, Dumitru Ceara wrote: >> 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. >>> >>> An example of how to use this when configuring is: >>> ./configure --with-version-suffix=-33.el9 >>> >>> Reported-at: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FDP-1904 >>> Signed-off-by: Rosemarie O'Riorden <[email protected]> >>> --- >> >> Hi Rosemarie, >> >> Thanks for the patch, it looks good to me so I applied it to the main >> branch. >> >> 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. > > The change seems small enough and should not impact the relative order > of versions, but it will change the visible version of the rpm packages > on stable branches. Though it should be fine, I suppose. > > Note: It should be fine, as there shouldn't be any dependencies, but > I'd suggest to double check that everything works as expected on 24.03 > before backporting, as OVS 3.3 doesn't have the corresponding change. >
Thanks, everyone, for the replies! I double checked the behavior on all stable branches and it seems to be fine so I went ahead and backported this to all of them, down to 24.03. Regards, Dumitru > Best regards, Ilya Maximets. > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
