[ONL]How to build the ONL installer for Edgecore switches? Follow

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This post shows the procedures to build the ONL (Open Networking Linux) installer/binaries for Edgecore switches.

Procedures:

Step 1 

• Prepare a Linux build server.

In the following step, we use the Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS to build the ONL installer.

Step 2 

The ONL built environment requires these tools.

• docker
• pyhton2
• binfmt-support
• apt-cacher-ng​

sudo apt-get install docker.io
sudo apt install python2
sudo apt-get install -y binfmt-support
sudo apt-get install apt-cacher-ng

Step 3

• Clone the master code from ONL Github first, and using the "make docker" command to build the installer is the easiest way.

ts@ts_server-bot:~$ git clone https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux
ts@ts_server-bot:~$ cd OpenNetworkLinux/
ts@ts_server-bot:~/OpenNetworkLinux$ export VERSION=9        ## Option: Choose Debian version 
ts@ts_server-bot:~/OpenNetworkLinux$ make docker

• If the PR (Pull Request) has not merged to the ONL master code yet. You can merge the specific PR by the following command:
  P.S. This example is to get the PR #832 from the ONL GitHub.

ts@ts_server-bot:~$ git clone https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux
ts@ts_server-bot:~$ cd OpenNetworkLinux/
ts@ts_server-bot:~/OpenNetworkLinux$ git pull origin pull/832/head 
ts@ts_server-bot:~/OpenNetworkLinux$ export VERSION=9   
ts@ts_server-bot:~/OpenNetworkLinux$ make docker

Step 4

• After the compiled finish, you can find the ONL installer from the "RELEASE" directory.

Reference:

[1] https://opennetlinux.org/doc-building.html
[2] https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux/blob/master/docs/Building.md