[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] INSTALL.Debian: Update instructions related to package ordering.

Gurucharan Shetty shettyg at nicira.com
Wed Apr 17 21:14:40 UTC 2013


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 03:41:22PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> > If we install the userspace packages first, without a kernel module
> > present in the correct path, we get an error because package install
> > automatically tries to start the userspace daemons and we look for
> > a kernel module to load.
> >
> > Installing a kernel module package first and then following it by
> > userspace package sounds like the correct way to do it. This change
> > in ordering helps my next commit.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>
>
> This seems reasonable.  I do not know whether it will help many
> people, because these instructions are installed as part of the
> openvswitch-switch package, so it is hard for users to read them
> before they have already installed that package.
>

It looks to me that INSTALL.Debian is not installed as part of any packages.
I assumed that this is a file for someone to create/build packages.

There is a README.Debian that does get installed through openvswitch-switch
package.
But it is different
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