From patchwork Mon May 29 18:40:51 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Ben Pfaff X-Patchwork-Id: 768300 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org [140.211.169.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3wc5D46Tk7z9s4s for ; Tue, 30 May 2017 04:41:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail.linux-foundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AAC7B2E; Mon, 29 May 2017 18:41:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: dev@openvswitch.org Delivered-To: ovs-dev@mail.linuxfoundation.org Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 229CB2C for ; Mon, 29 May 2017 18:41:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from relay6-d.mail.gandi.net (relay6-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.198]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 567F710E for ; Mon, 29 May 2017 18:41:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mfilter22-d.gandi.net (mfilter22-d.gandi.net [217.70.178.150]) by relay6-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009F8FB89F; Mon, 29 May 2017 20:41:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mfilter22-d.gandi.net Received: from relay6-d.mail.gandi.net ([IPv6:::ffff:217.70.183.198]) by mfilter22-d.gandi.net (mfilter22-d.gandi.net [::ffff:10.0.15.180]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Be47hH3Xjady; Mon, 29 May 2017 20:40:58 +0200 (CEST) X-Originating-IP: 173.228.112.47 Received: from sigabrt.gateway.sonic.net (173-228-112-47.dsl.dynamic.fusionbroadband.com [173.228.112.47]) (Authenticated sender: blp@ovn.org) by relay6-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 805C5FB8C4; Mon, 29 May 2017 20:40:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Ben Pfaff To: dev@openvswitch.org Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 11:40:51 -0700 Message-Id: <20170529184051.28887-1-blp@ovn.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.10.2 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Cc: Ben Pfaff , Mircea Ulinic Subject: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] debian.rst: Clarify that "dpkg" needs manual help with dependencies. X-BeenThere: ovs-dev@openvswitch.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: ovs-dev-bounces@openvswitch.org Errors-To: ovs-dev-bounces@openvswitch.org Reported-by: Mircea Ulinic Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff Acked-by: Andy Zhou --- AUTHORS.rst | 1 + Documentation/intro/install/debian.rst | 14 +++++++++----- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst index a8bf1ee0c6af..6c02711780d4 100644 --- a/AUTHORS.rst +++ b/AUTHORS.rst @@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ Mike Kruze mkruze@nicira.com Mike Qing mqing@vmware.com Min Chen ustcer.tonychan@gmail.com Mikael Doverhag mdoverhag@nicira.com +Mircea Ulinic ping@mirceaulinic.net Mrinmoy Das mrdas@ixiacom.com Muhammad Shahbaz mshahbaz@cs.princeton.edu Murali R muralirdev@gmail.com diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/debian.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/debian.rst index 6484331442fb..0bf94e4090d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/intro/install/debian.rst +++ b/Documentation/intro/install/debian.rst @@ -98,11 +98,15 @@ Installing .deb Packages ------------------------ These instructions apply to installing from Debian packages that you built -yourself, as described in the previous section, or from packages provided by -Debian or a Debian derivative distribution such as Ubuntu. In the former case, -use a command such as ``dpkg -i`` to install the .deb files that you build, and -in the latter case use a program such as ``apt-get`` or ``aptitude`` to -download and install the provided packages. +yourself, as described in the previous section. In this case, use a command +such as ``dpkg -i`` to install the .deb files that you build. You will have to +manually install any missing dependencies. + +You can also use these instruction to install from packages provided by Debian +or a Debian derivative distribution such as Ubuntu. In this case, use a +program such as ``apt-get`` or ``aptitude`` to download and install the +provided packages. These programs will also automatically download and install +any missing dependencies. .. important:: You must be superuser to install Debian packages.