Hi Ben.  Thanks again for bouncing some ideas back and forth.  I think I may 
have this solved.  Pretty simple really, and a bit embarrassing, but it might 
help others to post it here to save others some time.  In my defense this whole 
python/python2/python3 thing can be a maze especially when you have other 
issues to attend to as well - many - which are all even more boggy swamps ...

[ubuntu@oracle8 uekulele]$ sudo alternatives --config python

There are 3 programs which provide 'python'.

  Selection    Command
-----------------------------------------------
*  1           /usr/libexec/no-python
   2           /usr/bin/python2
 + 3           /usr/bin/python3

Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number:

Note that this can also be done in a script using the command:

sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3

Then once that is done get sphinx being sure to use the "3" postfix:

sudo yum -y install python3-sphinx

sudo yum -y install python3-six

Then verify they are there:

[ubuntu@oracle8 uekulele]$ sudo rpm -qa | egrep 'six|sphinx'

lua-posix-33.3.1-9.el8.x86_64
python3-sphinx_rtd_theme-0.3.1-3.el8.noarch
python3-six-1.11.0-8.el8.noarch
python3-sphinxcontrib-websupport-1.0.1-10.20180316git.el8.noarch
python3-sphinx-theme-alabaster-0.7.9-7.el8.noarch
python-sphinx-locale-1.7.6-1.el8.noarch
python3-sphinx-1.7.6-1.el8.noarch
[ubuntu@oracle8 uekulele]$

Then run the openvswitch build on Oracle Linux 8.

some gory details below ...

[ubuntu@oracle8 uekulele]$ sudo yum -y install python3-sphinx
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:04 ago on Wed 02 Oct 2019 09:34:46 AM CDT.
Dependencies resolved.
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                  ol8_codeready_builder                                 128 k
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                  ol8_codeready_builder                                  35 k
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                  ol8_codeready_builder                                 108 k
 fontawesome-fonts-web                                            noarch        
                         4.7.0-4.el8                                            
                  ol8_codeready_builder                                 429 k
 python3-sphinxcontrib-websupport                                 noarch        
                         1.0.1-10.20180316git.el8                               
                  ol8_codeready_builder                                  50 k
 google-roboto-slab-fonts                                         noarch        
                         1.100263-0.7.20150923git.el8                           
                  ol8_codeready_builder                                 238 k
 python3-packaging                                                noarch        
                         16.8-9.el8                                             
                  ol8_codeready_builder                                  48 k
 python-sphinx-locale                                             noarch        
                         1:1.7.6-1.el8                                          
                  ol8_codeready_builder                                 171 k
 lua-posix                                                        x86_64        
                         33.3.1-9.el8                                           
                  ol8_codeready_builder                                 176 k
 python3-sphinx-theme-alabaster                                   noarch        
                         0.7.9-7.el8                                            
                  ol8_codeready_builder                                  24 k
 python3-imagesize                                                noarch        
                         1.0.0-2.el8                                            
                  ol8_codeready_builder                                  16 k

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   Lmod-8.1.17-3.epel8.playground.x86_64                                        
lua-term-0.07-9.el8.x86_64
  fontawesome-fonts-4.7.0-4.el8.noarch                                          
   python3-docutils-0.14-12.module+el8.0.0+5333+22a49f57.noarch                 
python3-sqlalchemy-1.3.2-1.module+el8.0.0+5333+22a49f57.x86_64
  python3-pygments-2.2.0-20.module+el8.0.0+5333+22a49f57.noarch                 
   lato-fonts-2.015-5.el8.noarch                                                
tcl-1:8.6.8-2.el8.x86_64
  python3-whoosh-2.7.4-9.el8.noarch                                             
   python3-mock-2.0.0-11.el8.noarch                                             
python3-sphinx_rtd_theme-0.3.1-3.el8.noarch
  lua-filesystem-1.6.3-7.el8.x86_64                                             
   python3-snowballstemmer-1.2.1-6.el8.noarch                                   
fontawesome-fonts-web-4.7.0-4.el8.noarch
  python3-sphinxcontrib-websupport-1.0.1-10.20180316git.el8.noarch              
   google-roboto-slab-fonts-1.100263-0.7.20150923git.el8.noarch                 
python3-packaging-16.8-9.el8.noarch
  python-sphinx-locale-1:1.7.6-1.el8.noarch                                     
   lua-posix-33.3.1-9.el8.x86_64                                                
python3-sphinx-theme-alabaster-0.7.9-7.el8.noarch
  python3-imagesize-1.0.0-2.el8.noarch

Complete!
[ubuntu@oracle8 uekulele]$ sudo yum -y install python3-six
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:01 ago on Wed 02 Oct 2019 09:34:46 AM CDT.
Package python3-six-1.11.0-8.el8.noarch is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[ubuntu@oracle8 uekulele]$ sudo rpm -qa | egrep 'six|sphinx'
lua-posix-33.3.1-9.el8.x86_64
python3-sphinx_rtd_theme-0.3.1-3.el8.noarch
python3-six-1.11.0-8.el8.noarch
python3-sphinxcontrib-websupport-1.0.1-10.20180316git.el8.noarch
python3-sphinx-theme-alabaster-0.7.9-7.el8.noarch
python-sphinx-locale-1.7.6-1.el8.noarch
python3-sphinx-1.7.6-1.el8.noarch
[ubuntu@oracle8 uekulele]$

SO THE ABOVE DID NOT WORK:  I still got:

error: Failed build dependencies:
python-six is needed by openvswitch-2.11.1-1.x86_64
python-sphinx is needed by openvswitch-2.11.1-1.x86_64

==============================================
Done: Build OpenvSwitch RPMs
==============================================

Even when I also install python2-sphinx and set alternatives to python2 it does 
not work.  I wonder if it is looking for something actually called 
"python-sphinx" and "python-six" (not the python2- or python3- variants) and if 
a soft link somewhere would fix this.

________________________________
From: Orabuntu-LXC <gilb...@orabuntu-lxc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 7:05 PM
To: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>; Gilbert Standen <gilstan...@hotmail.com>
Cc: ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org <ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Build OpenvSwitch on Oracle Linux 8

Thanks Ben. I will keep hacking away at it. The protocols and design principles 
of Orabuntu-LXC require all installed software to be packaged - rpm or deb - so 
I will have to keep working on a solution to get the rpm package to build 
successfully.

BTW that was a typo earlier - we had been using ovs 2.5.4 not 2.0.5 - sorry - 
2.0.5 is the LXC version we were using for this testing

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
  Original Message
From: Ben Pfaff
Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 7:00 PM
To: Gilbert Standen
Cc: ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Build OpenvSwitch on Oracle Linux 8

OK.

It seems likely, then, that the Fedora RPM spec files are not suitable
for Oracle Linux. If so, then you can install OVS without the RPM
packaging, or create some new spec files for Oracle Linux.

On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 11:55:20PM +0000, Gilbert Standen wrote:
> I've tried all that - that was of course the first thing I tried.
>
> I've tried everything I can think of:
>
> [ubuntu@oracle8 ~]$ sudo yum install python-six python-sphinx
> [sudo] password for ubuntu:
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:27:33 ago on Tue 01 Oct 2019 06:20:33 PM 
> CDT.
> No match for argument: python-six
> No match for argument: python-sphinx
> Error: Unable to find a match
> [ubuntu@oracle8 ~]$
>
> and the above is with all repos enabled AND epel installed and enabled:
>
> [ubuntu@oracle8 yum.repos.d]$ sudo yum install python-six python-sphinx
> Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - Playground - x86_64 463 kB/s | 2.6 MB 
> 00:05
> Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - Playground - x86_64 - Debug 589 kB/s 
> | 1.6 MB 00:02
> Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - Playground - x86_64 - Source 130 kB/s 
> | 374 kB 00:02
> Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 35 kB/s | 18 kB 00:00
> Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 - Debug 295 kB/s | 656 kB 00:02
> Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 - Source 239 kB/s | 390 kB 
> 00:01
> No match for argument: python-six
> No match for argument: python-sphinx
> Error: Unable to find a match
> [ubuntu@oracle8 yum.repos.d]$
>
> [ubuntu@oracle8 yum.repos.d]$ sudo yum install python-six python-sphinx
> Oracle Linux 8 Addons (x86_64) 2.6 kB/s | 3.2 kB 00:01
> Oracle Linux 8 Application Stream (x86_64) 29 kB/s | 2.9 kB 00:00
> Oracle Linux 8 BaseOS Latest (x86_64) 18 kB/s | 2.7 kB 00:00
> Oracle Linux 8 CodeReady Builder (x86_64) - Unsupported 27 kB/s | 2.7 kB 00:00
> Oracle Linux 8 BaseOS GA (x86_64) 26 kB/s | 2.7 kB 00:00
> No match for argument: python-six
> No match for argument: python-sphinx
> Error: Unable to find a match
> [ubuntu@oracle8 yum.repos.d]$
>
> I've also tried setting up a python virtual environment within the script - 
> that doesn't work either:
>
> sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3
> python3 -m venv py36env
> source py36env/bin/activate
> python3 -m pip install six
> python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
> python3 -m pip install six
> python3 -m pip install sphinx
>
> all those commands work, but openvswitch build doesn't see sphinx or six - do 
> I need to set some switch on the build command ?
>
> error: Failed build dependencies:
> python-six is needed by openvswitch-2.11.1-1.x86_64
> python-sphinx is needed by openvswitch-2.11.1-1.x86_64
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 6:40 PM
> To: Gilbert Standen <gilstan...@hotmail.com>
> Cc: ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org <ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org>
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Build OpenvSwitch on Oracle Linux 8
>
> You're using two different packaging systems here. The RPM spec file
> requires the RPMs it mentions to be installed (for Python 2), but you
> used pip to install them (for Python 3).
>
> My guess is that "yum install python-six python-sphinx
> selinux-policy-devel unbound-devel" or its Oracle equivalent will fix
> the problem.
>
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 11:17:18PM +0000, Gilbert Standen wrote:
> > For example:
> >
> > [ubuntu@oracle8 anylinux]$ python3 -m pip install six
> > Requirement already satisfied: six in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages
> > [ubuntu@oracle8 anylinux]$ python3 -m pip install sphinx
> > Requirement already satisfied: sphinx in 
> > /usr/local/lib64/python3.6/site-packages
> > Requirement already satisfied: requests>=2.5.0 in 
> > /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: babel!=2.0,>=1.3 in 
> > /usr/local/lib64/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: sphinxcontrib-jsmath in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: snowballstemmer>=1.1 in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in 
> > /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: alabaster<0.8,>=0.7 in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: imagesize in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: packaging in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: Pygments>=2.0 in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: sphinxcontrib-applehelp in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: docutils>=0.12 in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: Jinja2>=2.3 in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: sphinxcontrib-devhelp in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: sphinxcontrib-qthelp in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 in 
> > /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from requests>=2.5.0->sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: idna<2.8,>=2.5 in 
> > /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from requests>=2.5.0->sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<1.25,>=1.21.1 in 
> > /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from requests>=2.5.0->sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: pytz>=2015.7 in 
> > /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from babel!=2.0,>=1.3->sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing>=2.0.2 in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from packaging->sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: six in 
> > /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from packaging->sphinx)
> > Requirement already satisfied: MarkupSafe>=0.23 in 
> > /usr/local/lib64/python3.6/site-packages (from Jinja2>=2.3->sphinx)
> > [ubuntu@oracle8 anylinux]$ sudo alternatives --config python
> >
> > There are 3 programs which provide 'python'.
> >
> > Selection Command
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > * 1 /usr/libexec/no-python
> > + 2 /usr/bin/python3
> > 3 /usr/bin/python2
> >
> > Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: 2
> > [ubuntu@oracle8 anylinux]$
> >
> > But still when I go to build openvswitch, I get:
> >
> > error: Failed build dependencies:
> > python-six is needed by openvswitch-2.11.1-1.x86_64
> > python-sphinx is needed by openvswitch-2.11.1-1.x86_64
> > selinux-policy-devel is needed by openvswitch-2.11.1-1.x86_64
> > unbound-devel is needed by openvswitch-2.11.1-1.x86_64
> >
> > I guess it's going to be obvious I'm not much good with python ... they 
> > seem to be installed so why can't openvswitch use/see them?
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Gilbert Standen <gilstan...@hotmail.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 5:32 PM
> > To: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>
> > Cc: ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org <ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org>
> > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Build OpenvSwitch on Oracle Linux 8
> >
> > Thanks Ben. I've tried that too. When I try to install openvswitch 2.11.x I 
> > run into needing python-six and python-sphinx and I've been trying for a 
> > couple days to figure out how to get those installed on Oracle Linux 8 to 
> > no avail ...
> >
> >
> > "If BlackBerrys were as plentiful as Apples, upon compulsions, no man seven 
> > reasons would I give, for BlackBerry 10 reasons hath one to give, I."
> >
> > Gilbert Standen after William Shakespeare, Henry IV‎ . Sent from my 
> > BlackBerry 10 Classic.
> > Original Message
> > From: Ben Pfaff
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 4:57 PM
> > To: Gilbert Standen
> > Cc: ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org
> > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Build OpenvSwitch on Oracle Linux 8
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 09:46:41PM +0000, Gilbert Standen wrote:
> > > Hi, when I try to build OpenvSwitch 2.0.5 on Oracle Linux 8 I get the
> > > following errors. Any ideas on how to address this ? Thanks!
> >
> > OVS 2.0 was released in 2013. Use a newer version.
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