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

[Russell Bryant]

On 12/23/2015 12:28 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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.

It's that ovsdb-server comes from openvswitch-switch, right?

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Russell Bryant