OPX Build

Build environment and scripts for OpenSwitch.

If you would like to download binaries instead, see Install OPX on Dell EMC ON Series platforms.

Quick start

# get source code
repo init -u https://github.com/open-switch/opx-manifest && repo sync

# build all open-source packages
opx-build/scripts/opx_run opx_build all

# assemble installer
opx-build/scripts/opx_run opx_rel_pkgasm.py --dist unstable \
  -b opx-onie-installer/release_bp/OPX_dell_base_<ARCH>.xml

Ex:
opx-build/scripts/opx_run opx_rel_pkgasm.py --dist unstable \
  -b opx-onie-installer/release_bp/OPX_dell_base_stretch.xml

Getting started with OpenSwitch

Prerequisites

• 20GB free disk space
• Docker
• Repo

Get source code

repo init -u https://github.com/open-switch/opx-manifest && repo sync

The repo commands download all of the source files that are necessary to build OpenSwitch. Binary libraries for the SAI are also required. These binary libraries are currently not open source, as they are based on the Broadcom SDK.

Build packages

Build dependencies are pulled from the unstable distribution. To change this, use $OPX_RELEASE.

# Build all repositories
opx-build/scripts/opx_run opx_build all

# Build a single repository
opx-build/scripts/opx_run opx_build opx-logging

# Build against the 2.2.1 release
OPX_RELEASE=2.2.1 opx-build/scripts/opx_run opx_build all

Note: Ensure the Docker image is up to date by running docker pull opxhub/build.

Manual build of single repository

It can be helpful to build a single repository with finer control.

It is always possible to enter the container via opx_run and manually install dependencies using apt, dpkg, pip, and so on. Then build as per usual.

fakeroot debian/rules binary

This allows you to see all files created during the build that would normally be cleaned up after an opx_build build terminates.

It is possible to build unstripped executables by adding the following line to the end of the file debian/rules:

override_dh_strip:

Working with Jessie

Our image is based on Debian Stretch. Building packages for Jessie using opx_build will continue to work with DIST=jessie. To run a container based on Jessie, add VERSION=jessie to the environment.

VERSION=jessie DIST=jessie opx-build/scripts/opx_run

Installation

Creating an installer requires the opx-onie-installer repository. This repository is included if you cloned with repo and contains the blueprints used to assemble an installer.

Any local packages you have built will be included in the installer. To exclude them, remove the deb files from the repo root.

The unstable distribution is used to grab missing packages on installer creation and fetch updates when running. To use a different distribution, use the --dist flag.

Run opx-build/scripts/opx_run opx_rel_pkgasm.py --help to see the available distributions.

opx-build/scripts/opx_run opx_rel_pkgasm.py --dist stable \
  -b opx-onie-installer/release_bp/OPX_dell_base_stretch.xml

To build a Debian Jessie-based installer change stretch to jessie.

opx-build/scripts/opx_run opx_rel_pkgasm.py --dist stable \
  -b opx-onie-installer/release_bp/OPX_dell_base_jessie.xml

Creating the opx-build Docker image

./docker_build.sh

The default Docker image builds against the unstable OPX distribution. When other distributions are requested, pbuilder chroots are created on the fly. These chroots are lost when the container is removed, but only take 7.5sec to create.

Docker Image Architecture

Since git-buildpackage with cowbuilder is used to build our packages, a pbuilder chroot is created in the image. Due to an issue with docker/kernel/overlayfs/pbuilder, the pbuilder chroot is created by running a privileged base container and committing it. To keep the image size small, only one chroot is created. This chroot contains sources from the unstable OPX release. To support building against multiple OPX releases, this chroot is copied and modified as needed with new package sources at runtime (when the OPX_RELEASE variable is used). When publishing our image, we use a tag with the format ${sha}-${dist}, where ${sha} is the HEAD of this repository and ${dist} is the Debian distribution of the pbuilder chroot. The latest tag always point to the most recently published image.

Build Options

These environment variables enable different options.

• OPX_GIT_TAG=yes: after each build, tag the repository for publishing
• OPX_RELEASE=2.2.1: change which OPX release to build against

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