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

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Sat Apr 20 17:19:58 UTC 2013


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:14:40PM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> 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.

My mistake, I had forgotten.

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

OK.



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