[ovs-discuss] upgrading openvswitch

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 02:28:26PM -0600, Carlos Konstanski wrote:
> Again looking at the ebuild, this is how it tries to upgrade the db:
> 
> /usr/bin/ovsdb-tool convert /var/lib/openvswitch/conf.db
> /usr/share/openvswitch/vswitch.ovsschema

That's the correct technique, assuming that the file names are correct.
See the "Upgrading" section in INSTALL.md for details.