Bug 1397058

Summary:	RHEL 7 kernel mode build specs are missing from the rhel directory
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Mor <mkalfon>
Component:	openvswitch	Assignee:	Open vSwitch development team <ovs-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Network QE <network-qe>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.3	CC:	aconole, atragler, danken, lrichard
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	7.3
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Mor 2016-11-21 14:08:12 UTC

Description of problem:
Missing RHEL version 7 spec file for building OVS kernel modules in RHEL-7.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.0

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. git clone https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs.git 
2. Try to build RHEL-7 kernel modules

Actual results:
There is no RHEL 7 spec file.

Expected results:
A file should exists.

Additional info:
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/INSTALL.RHEL.rst

Comment 1 Aaron Conole 2016-11-21 14:27:43 UTC

RHEL7 ships with a kernel module built as part of RHEL7 kernel, and we ship an openvswitch package as part of the Fast Datapath channel which is QA'd against the previously mentioned kernel.

It is not recommended that users manually build the ovs kernel module.

Have I understood the bug?  If so, we should close it as not a bug.

Comment 2 Lance Richardson 2016-11-21 14:43:02 UTC

(In reply to Aaron Conole from comment #1)
> RHEL7 ships with a kernel module built as part of RHEL7 kernel, and we ship
> an openvswitch package as part of the Fast Datapath channel which is QA'd
> against the previously mentioned kernel.
> 
> It is not recommended that users manually build the ovs kernel module.
> 
> Have I understood the bug?  If so, we should close it as not a bug.

Agree.  In addition, it is already possible to build the kernel module
RPM for RHEL7, simply "make rpm-fedora-kmod" from the top-level source
directory. This is documented in INSTALL.RHEL.md and INSTALL.Fedora.md:

    For RHEL 7.x (or derivatives, such as CentOS 7.x), you should follow
    the instructions in [INSTALL.Fedora.md].  The Fedora spec files are
    used for RHEL 7.x.

I agree, this should be closed as not a bug.

Comment 3 Mor 2016-11-21 15:59:58 UTC

Bug can be closed, thanks.

Comment 4 Dan Kenigsberg 2016-11-22 09:27:51 UTC

Sorry for the noise, this bug is due to a misunderstanding in a private chat.

We'd like to make sure our users do not attempt to use the provider on an unsupported platform.

http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-November/044088.html

Requires: kernel >= 3.10.0-512