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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add openvswitch.
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 20:24:15 +0800
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John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes:

> [...]
>      +
>      +(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.
>

No, I haven't figure the enough information for this, not sure what to
ask.