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

Neil Horman nhorman at tuxdriver.com
Thu May 1 15:14:10 CEST 2014


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.
> -- 
> Thomas
> 


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>



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