[ovs-dev] OVN/OVS Split POC: version 2

Flavio Leitner fbl at sysclose.org
Thu Apr 18 13:41:01 UTC 2019


On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 04:35:05PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 05:07:34PM -0300, Flavio Leitner via dev wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 04:15:07PM -0400, Mark Michelson wrote:
> > > I've once again rolled another OVN/OVS split version. It can be found at
> > > https://github.com/putnopvut/ovn_mk2.git
> > > 
> > > The main changes between this and the old split POC are as follows:
> > > 
> > > * This is based on a much newer build of OVS master. Therefore, build errors
> > > people had with dhparams.c *should* be cleared up.
> > > 
> > > * This fixes errors with manpages.mk generation/checking, so there is no
> > > need to do a pointless `touch` of manpages.mk during the build process.
> > > 
> > > * In many cases, rather than hard-coding paths to OVS, we use variables.
> > > This isn't universally applied, but it's used for the locations of C
> > > headers, libraries, and manpages.
> > > 
> > > Please give this a look and let me know what you think.
> > 
> > I see OVS binaries, headers, man-pages and libraries being built
> > and installed. Not sure what the plans are, but this could cause
> > some confusion to users once they start using the repo.
> 
> It's good to fix this issue, and anything else we find before we do the
> split, but I want to avoid the idea that it has to be perfect before we
> pull the trigger.  There will be problems.  We'll fix them.

Sure, I agree. I brought up some issues, but I am not opposing to pull
the trigger.

fbl


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