On 7 November 2016 02:13:05 GMT+00:00, Thomas F Herbert <therbert@redhat.com> wrote:

Folks,

I have code to build DPDK RPM's built for 16.07 release merged upstream in new dpdk-rpm project we started in fd.io. I also modified the vpp rpm creation so it was more distro friendly, so it could be built from a dist tarball or a SRPM.

My questions are about RPM naming conventions for Centos for DPDK, vpp and other upstream NFV related projects to come.

I built RPMs previously for OVS/DPDK and DPDK in OPNFV and stuck pretty to the Fedora naming conventions and nobody complained. But somehow, I don't think that what I have done so far will meet the more strict standards of the DISTRO.

To begin with, could you please point me to some guidelines for file names. I see them for Fedora everywhere but I am fuzzy on what would be required for Centos.

In order for the changelog to be meaningful it seems that there should be a git hash tag appended to file name. however, when the RPM is an unaltered "pure" upstream release with no patches I am not sure this is necessary.

Forgive me if these seem like stupid questions but I am trying to get a few bits together upstream and then I should be able to start building in Koji for the NFV SIG and I want to make sure I do things "right!"

--Tom

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Thomas F Herbert
SDN Group
Office of Technology
Red Hat