[ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel: Support building python ovs package with native json impl

Flavio Leitner fbl at sysclose.org
Fri Dec 30 16:41:21 UTC 2016


On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:45:05 -0500
Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> wrote:

> Although I'm not Flavio, I do have some quick thoughts on this.
> 
> Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org> writes:
> 
> > My main concern with this was that it implements a new python-ovs package
> > and leaves the existing one alone.  I'd like to figure out how to change
> > the existing package so that we always use this approach.  
> 
> +1.  I don't think this should be split out the way it is here.

The preference is for a sub-package and if it's something that most
people don't care but gets impacted, then we can use a conditional to
enable the build.

Creating another package causes headaches for all distros maintainers
because one has import in the distro and deal with two packages from
now on.

-- 
Flavio



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