By: slowe
Timothy, thanks for your comment. I wanted to focus on RHEL/CentOS since those are the distributions that tend to be most common in enterprise environments. Your article looks quite helpful. I gave it...
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Hi Scott, Well, I understand your problems, but I have a slightly different take on things. You either go bleeding edge and are content with compiling stuff like e.g. OVS from source code (and no,...
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Scott, did you enable the EPEL repo? The aclocal version is newer there I believe…
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Florian, thanks for your comment. The one thing that I didn’t mention in my article is exactly what you’ve picked up on it seems–that there are plenty of commercial vendors willing to “hide the open...
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Timothy, I’m pretty sure that the EPEL repository was enabled. I’ll double-check next time I get a whim to work with RHEL/CentOS again.
View ArticleBy: Paul
We’ve moving away from RHEL to Ubuntu LTS releases @ $dayjob. Stability is good, but being ancient also has its downsides. In place OS upgrades fully supported via apt are going to make my team’s job...
View ArticleBy: Dmitri Kalintsev
Is it possible that the developers, being part of commercial organisations offering integrated solutions, are naturally inclined to pay more attention to getting things work within the confines of the...
View ArticleBy: Ken.C
I suppose we should look at it like this: the devels are skating where the puck will be by the time it gets out to the enterprise. By the time anyone enterprise will actually consider OVS, perhaps...
View ArticleBy: Chris Cowley
I hear your pain Scott, but there is no point in the OVS developers targeting the current RHEL when they start writing. By the time they are stable that release will have been and gone (even though it...
View ArticleBy: Chris Cowley
@Timothy Patterson aclocal is not in EPEL. Also it never would be as that goes contrary to the stated aims of EPEL. It is EXTRA packages, not UPDATED packages. They will only have a package that...
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