OVN source(main branch) deploy jobs fails with make: *** No rule to make target '/opt/stack/ovs/python/ovs_build_helpers/soutil.py', needed by 'manpages.mk'. Stop.

[yatin]

Fails as below:-
2023-09-05 02:43:36.168367 | controller | checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
2023-09-05 02:43:36.169129 | controller | configure: creating ./config.status
2023-09-05 02:43:36.994278 | controller | config.status: creating lib/libovn.sym
2023-09-05 02:43:37.014160 | controller | config.status: creating Makefile
2023-09-05 02:43:37.035733 | controller | config.status: creating tests/atlocal
2023-09-05 02:43:37.056014 | controller | config.status: creating include/ovn/version.h
2023-09-05 02:43:37.076031 | controller | config.status: creating config.h
2023-09-05 02:43:37.093144 | controller | config.status: executing tests/atconfig commands
2023-09-05 02:43:37.096437 | controller | config.status: executing depfiles commands
2023-09-05 02:43:37.502518 | controller | config.status: executing libtool commands
2023-09-05 02:43:37.522280 | controller | config.status: executing include/openflow/openflow.h.stamp commands
2023-09-05 02:43:37.529722 | controller | config.status: executing utilities/bugtool/dummy commands
2023-09-05 02:43:37.537607 | controller | config.status: executing utilities/dummy commands
2023-09-05 02:43:37.546272 | controller | config.status: executing ipsec/dummy commands
2023-09-05 02:43:37.623678 | controller | ++ lib/neutron_plugins/ovn_agent:compile_ovn:340 : nproc
2023-09-05 02:43:37.628062 | controller | + lib/neutron_plugins/ovn_agent:compile_ovn:340 : make -j9
2023-09-05 02:43:37.651547 | controller | make: *** No rule to make target '/opt/stack/ovs/python/ovs_build_helpers/soutil.py', needed by 'manpages.mk'. Stop.
2023-09-05 02:43:37.654863 | controller | + lib/neutron_plugins/ovn_agent:compile_ovn:1 : exit_trap
2023-09-05 02:43:37.657653 | controller | + ./stack.sh:exit_trap:551 : local r=2
2023-09-05 02:43:37.660729 | controller | ++ ./stack.sh:exit_trap:552 : jobs -p
2023-09-05 02:43:37.664619 | controller | + ./stack.sh:exit_trap:552 : jobs=
2023-09-05 02:43:37.667207 | controller | + ./stack.sh:exit_trap:555 : [[ -n '' ]]
2023-09-05 02:43:37.669954 | controller | + ./stack.sh:exit_trap:561 : '[' -f '' ']'
2023-09-05 02:43:37.672302 | controller | + ./stack.sh:exit_trap:566 : kill_spinner

Example failure:- https://f73d480b17c2b34dc38c-939d58bab8c2106dbf157cafeea8359a.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/periodic/opendev.org/openstack/neutron/master/neutron-ovn-tempest-ipv6-only-ovs-master/7c297ec/job-output.txt

Builds:- https://zuul.openstack.org/builds?job_name=neutron-ovn-tempest-ipv6-only-ovs-master&job_name=neutron-ovn-tempest-ovs-master-centos-9-stream&project=openstack%2Fneutron&skip=0

Broken with https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/commit/558da0cd21ad0172405f7d93c5d0e7533edbf653

Need to update OVS_BRANCH in jobs to fix it.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/893700

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/893700
Committed: https://opendev.org/openstack/neutron/commit/c930196dd84d9d1525014c57e18fa3d9a36c6234
Submitter: "Zuul (22348)"
Branch: master

commit c930196dd84d9d1525014c57e18fa3d9a36c6234
Author: yatinkarel <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 5 10:28:36 2023 +0530

    [CI] Bump OVS_BRANCH in ovs/ovn source deploy jobs

    Since [1] OVN/OVS source deploy jobs running with
    OVN_BRANCH=main fails to compile ovn as this now
    requires newer ovs commits from branch-3.2.

    [1] https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/commit/558da0cd

    Closes-Bug: #2034096
    Change-Id: I5247ce2b1a8606bde807a1744ed37daff04438f1

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/neutron 23.0.0.0rc1 release candidate.