Currently system-type and system-version can only be set through
ovs-vsctl and ovs-ctl in the commandline. This patch allows you
to place system-type.conf and system-version.conf files in $etcdir
and their contents will be used if no arguments are specified with
ovs-vsctl or ovs-ctl.

Bug #9033.

Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshe...@nicira.com>
---
 AUTHORS              |    1 +
 utilities/ovs-ctl.8  |   15 ++++++++++-----
 utilities/ovs-ctl.in |    8 +++++++-
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 821f780..c547ce2 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Edward Tomasz NapieraƂa tr...@freebsd.org
 Ethan Jackson           et...@nicira.com
 Gaetano Catalli         gaetano.cata...@gmail.com
 Glen Gibb               g...@stanford.edu
+Gurucharan Shetty       gshe...@nicira.com
 Hao Zheng               hzh...@nicira.com
 Ian Campbell            ian.campb...@citrix.com
 Jean Tourrilhes         j...@hpl.hp.com
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ctl.8 b/utilities/ovs-ctl.8
index 0e41162..43ce8a8 100644
--- a/utilities/ovs-ctl.8
+++ b/utilities/ovs-ctl.8
@@ -123,11 +123,6 @@ When \fBrandom\fR is specified, \fBovs\-ctl\fR will 
generate a random
 ID that persists from one run to another (stored in a file).  When
 another string is specified \fBovs\-ctl\fR uses it literally.
 .
-.PP
-On systems that have the \fBlsb_release\fR program, \fBovs\-ctl\fR
-chooses reasonable defaults for the following options.  Other systems
-should specify values:
-.
 .IP "\fB\-\-system\-type=\fItype\fR"
 .IQ "\fB\-\-system\-version=\fIversion\fR"
 Sets the value to store in the \fBsystem-type\fR and
@@ -135,6 +130,11 @@ Sets the value to store in the \fBsystem-type\fR and
 \fBOpen_vSwitch\fR table.  Remote managers may use these values to
 determine the kind of system to which they are connected (primarily
 for display to human administrators).
+.IP
+When not provided, \fBovs-ctl\fR uses values from the optional 
+\fBsystem-type.conf\fR and \fBsystem-version.conf\fR files(see section 
+\fBFILES\fR) or it uses the \fBlsb_release\fR program, if present, to 
+provide reasonable defaults.
 .
 .PP
 The following options are also likely to be useful:
@@ -400,6 +400,11 @@ location).
 The persistent system UUID created and read by
 \fB\-\-system\-id=random\fR.
 .
+.IP "\fIsysconfdir\fB/openvswitch/system-type.conf\fR"
+.IQ "\fIsysconfdir\fB/openvswitch/system-version.conf\fR"
+The system-type  and system-version values stored in the database's 
+\fBOpen_vSwitch\fR table when not specified as a command-line option. 
+.
 .SH "EXAMPLE"
 .
 .PP
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in
index ee6035c..5640ee8 100755
--- a/utilities/ovs-ctl.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-ctl.in
@@ -373,7 +373,13 @@ set_defaults () {
     DPORT=
     SPORT=
 
-    if (lsb_release --id) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    type_file=$etcdir/system-type.conf
+    version_file=$etcdir/system-version.conf
+
+    if test -e "$type_file" ; then
+        SYSTEM_TYPE=`cat $type_file`
+        SYSTEM_VERSION=`cat $version_file`
+    elif (lsb_release --id) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
         SYSTEM_TYPE=`lsb_release --id -s`
         system_release=`lsb_release --release -s`
         system_codename=`lsb_release --codename -s`
-- 
1.7.5.4

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