[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] recipes for RPM packages

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Thu May 1 23:15:18 CEST 2014


2014-05-01 09:14, Neil Horman:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:46:41AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > The goal of this patch serie is to be able to package DPDK
> > for RPM-based distributions.
> > 
> > The file naming currently doesn't allow to install different DPDK
> > versions.
> > But the packaging naming should be ready to manage different DPDK versions
> > 
> > having different API/ABI for different applications:
> > 	- dpdk-core has full version in its name to manage API breaking
> > 	- extensions have a number as name suffix to manage PMD API breaking.
> > 
> > When API/ABI will be stable, package names could be simpler.
> > 
> > I suggest to add these .spec files as a starting point for integration
> > in Linux distributions.
> > 
> > Changes since v1:
> > 	- name of .spec file match package name
> > 	- version in package name
> > 	- no static library
> > 	- ldconfig/depmod in scriplets
> > 
> > Thanks for your comments/reviews.
> 
> I understand that this is holding up the 1.6.0r2 release, as well as the
> 1.7.0 integration.  As such, given that my concerns, while valid IMO,
> aren't required for the release:
> 
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>

Applied for dpdk-1.6.0r2, memnic-1.1, vmxnet3-usermap 1.2
and virtio-net-pmd-1.2.

Thanks Neil and other RedHat people for helping in this first step.

-- 
Thomas


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