[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/5] debian: Add a package for OVN common components.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 07:30:48AM -0800, Guru Shetty wrote:
> > I'm not sure about the dependency on openvswitch-switch.  One could run
> > northd and the nb and sb database on a machine that does not have an
> > openvswitch switch running; it might even be preferred in a large
> > deployment.  What do you think?
> 
> openvswitch-switch has ovs-lib and ovn-ctl depends on it, hence the
> dependency. 

If it's just a matter of ovs-lib, then we could easily move that into
openvswitch-common.

> Rationale for including ovn-ctl, ovn-sbctl and ovn-nbctl in this
> package:
> 
> ovn-ctl: needed to start ovn-northd and ovn-controller
> ovn-nbctl and ovn-sbctl: one can use them over tcp/ssl from hypervisors to
> get information about central components.

I understand why we'd want those utilities here, just not why we'd want
to run an Open vSwitch switch on OVN database nodes.