On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 09:56:15PM +0800, ????????? wrote:
     * gnu/packages/networking.scm (openvswitch): New variable.
     ---
      gnu/packages/networking.scm | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
      1 file changed, 54 insertions(+)
     
     diff --git a/gnu/packages/networking.scm b/gnu/packages/networking.scm
     index 87ee0a1d8..c6fb2cfda 100644
     --- a/gnu/packages/networking.scm
     +++ b/gnu/packages/networking.scm
     @@ -1060,3 +1060,57 @@ suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire up NetHogs and immediately see
      which PID is causing this.  This makes it easy to identify programs that have
      gone wild and are suddenly taking up your bandwidth.")
          (license license:gpl2+)))
     +
     +(define-public openvswitch
     +  (package
     +    (name "openvswitch")
     +    (version "2.6.1")
     +    (source (origin
     +              (method url-fetch)
     +              (uri (string-append
     +                    "http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-"
     +                    version ".tar.gz"))
     +              (sha256
     +               (base32
     +                "036gq741j9kqsjlp693nff838c9wjd1c56nswl9vyyd1lsmj0yrh"))))
     +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
     +    (arguments
     +     '(;; FIXME: many tests fail with:
     +       ;;    [???]
     +       ;;    test -e $OVS_RUNDIR/ovs-vswitchd.pid
     +       ;;    ovs-appctl -t ovs-vswitchd exit
     +       ;;    hard failure
     +       #:tests? #f

Have you tried asking upstream about this?  They are usually very helpfull.


J'
     
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