[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] debian: Create the config database if it doesn't exist on startup

[Justin Pettit]

On Jan 11, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:

>> +            # Initialize configuration database.
>> +            ovsdb-tool -vANY:console:emer \
>> +                transact /etc/openvswitch-switch/conf \
>> +                '[{"op": "insert", "table": "Open_vSwitch", "row": {}}]' \
>> +                > /dev/null
> 
> I'd rather avoid hard-coding this initialization here, instead adding a
> call to "ovs-vsctl --no-wait init" after we start the ovsdb-server.
> (That's how it's done in xenserver/etc_init.d/vswitch.)  Then if we
> later change the minimal configuration of the database, we only have to
> change ovs-vsctl, not multiple places.

I think that makes sense.  I basically just ripped this from openvswitch-switch.postinst.  I assume you'd like the same change there, as well.

--Justin