The documentation reported the union of all possible Debian- and Debian-derived packaging. This isn't realistic: there are differences between OVS upstream, Debian downstream, and Ubuntu downstream. This commit distinguishes them.
Reported-by: Ravi Kerur <rke...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> --- Documentation/intro/install/distributions.rst | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/distributions.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/distributions.rst index 5987178eaafc..523c83aa72ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/intro/install/distributions.rst +++ b/Documentation/intro/install/distributions.rst @@ -44,10 +44,13 @@ that includes the core userspace components of the switch. 2. For kernel datapath, ``openvswitch-datapath-dkms`` can be installed to automatically build and install Open vSwitch kernel module for your running -kernel. +kernel. This package is only available when the .deb packages are built from +the Open vSwitch repository; it is not downstream in Debian or Ubuntu releases. 3. For DPDK datapath, Open vSwitch with DPDK support is bundled in the package -``openvswitch-switch-dpdk``. +``openvswitch-switch-dpdk``. This package is only available in the Ubuntu +distribution; it is not upstream in the Open vSwitch repository or downstream +in Debian. Fedora ------ -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
