From 4887b8e1db80ccbf7dcb3e370891e80f8366de2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Poessinger Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:51:46 +0200 Subject: build-vyos: add hint about lo interface sysctl knob (cherry picked from commit b0497191f7db7a5a37448ed7ba1f74321d0e2abc) --- docs/contributing/build-vyos.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/contributing/build-vyos.rst') diff --git a/docs/contributing/build-vyos.rst b/docs/contributing/build-vyos.rst index 792c4208..935f73b5 100644 --- a/docs/contributing/build-vyos.rst +++ b/docs/contributing/build-vyos.rst @@ -129,6 +129,13 @@ per release train (`current` or `crux`) - container. Add the following to your Now you are prepared with two new aliases ``vybld`` and ``vybld_crux`` to spawn your development containers in your current working directory. +.. note:: Some VyOS packages (namely vyos-1x) come with build-time tests which + verify some of the internal library calls that they work as expected. Those + tests are carried out through the Python Unittest module. If you wan't to + build the ``vyos-1x`` package (which is our main development package) you need + to start your Docker container using the following argument: + ``--sysctl net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6=0``, otherwise those tests will fail. + .. _build_native: Native Build -- cgit v1.2.3