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.
> 

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