rhel: add ability to build kmod packages for arbitrary kernel version/variant(s)

[sliver-openvswitch.git] / INSTALL.RHEL

diff --git a/INSTALL.RHEL b/INSTALL.RHEL
index 3558948..b452383 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.RHEL
+++ b/INSTALL.RHEL
@@ -53,7 +53,16 @@ RHEL.  On RHEL 5, the default RPM source directory is
 
        rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
 
-    This produces an "kmod-openvswitch" RPM.
+    You might have to specify a kernel version and/or variants, e.g.:
+
+       rpmbuild -bb \
+               -D "kversion 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64" \
+               -D "kflavors default debug kdump" \
+               rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
+
+    This produces an "kmod-openvswitch" RPM for each kernel variant,
+    in this example: "kmod-openvswitch", "kmod-openvswitch-debug", and
+    "kmod-openvswitch-kdump".
 
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