Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Drop support for RHEL 5 and 6

2018-01-17 Thread Flavio Leitner
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 09:42:34AM -0800, Guru Shetty wrote: > On 17 January 2018 at 07:57, Flavio Leitner wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > One of the reasons is to clean up a bit because today it is not > > obvious that openvswitch.spec uses initscripts and shouldn't be > > used for Fedora or RHEL-7

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Drop support for RHEL 5 and 6

2018-01-17 Thread Guru Shetty
On 17 January 2018 at 07:57, Flavio Leitner wrote: > > Hi, > > One of the reasons is to clean up a bit because today it is not > obvious that openvswitch.spec uses initscripts and shouldn't be > used for Fedora or RHEL-7. > > Then we have openvswitch-fedora.spec which is not obvious if it > works

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Drop support for RHEL 5 and 6

2018-01-17 Thread Flavio Leitner
Hi, One of the reasons is to clean up a bit because today it is not obvious that openvswitch.spec uses initscripts and shouldn't be used for Fedora or RHEL-7. Then we have openvswitch-fedora.spec which is not obvious if it works or not in RHEL-7 too. We could document that somehow, but it would

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Drop support for RHEL 5 and 6

2018-01-17 Thread Russell Bryant
OK - fine with me. So an alternative patch would be to document that this spec is now just an alternative for RHEL7 vs one for 5 / 6? On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:56 PM, Guru Shetty wrote: > We use RHEL6 spec to build rpms for RHEL7 as we still use sysV scripts. We > will need quite a bit of scrip

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Drop support for RHEL 5 and 6

2018-01-16 Thread Guru Shetty
We use RHEL6 spec to build rpms for RHEL7 as we still use sysV scripts. We will need quite a bit of scripting changes, install script changes, dependencies etc to get ourselves accustomed to systemd. So I would prefer that we not do this till OVS 2.10 atleast. On 16 January 2018 at 08:44, Russell

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Drop support for RHEL 5 and 6

2018-01-16 Thread Russell Bryant
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:36 AM, Timothy Redaelli wrote: > RHEL 6 is not supported anymore since it uses Python 2.6 and GCC 4.4.x, > but Open vSwitch needs, at least, Python 2.7 and GCC 4.6 to build correctly. > > http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/general/#build-requirements > >

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Drop support for RHEL 5 and 6

2018-01-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Guru and Russell, may I assume that you will review this? Thanks, Ben. On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 05:36:36PM +0100, Timothy Redaelli wrote: > RHEL 6 is not supported anymore since it uses Python 2.6 and GCC 4.4.x, > but Open vSwitch needs, at least, Python 2.7 and GCC 4.6 to build correctly. > > h

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Drop support for RHEL 5 and 6

2018-01-11 Thread Timothy Redaelli
RHEL 6 is not supported anymore since it uses Python 2.6 and GCC 4.4.x, but Open vSwitch needs, at least, Python 2.7 and GCC 4.6 to build correctly. http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/general/#build-requirements CC: Gurucharan Shetty Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli --- This is