On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Guru Shetty <g...@ovn.org> wrote: > > > On 2 July 2016 at 05:31, Flaviof <fla...@flaviof.com> wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm trying to install a node where all I have running is ovn northd. That >> is very similar to what we have as the db node in >> networking-ovn's Vagrantfile [1]. >> Note that I'm not trying to install/run ovn-controller in this node! >> >> It is clear that ovn northd needs ovsdb-server and does not need vswitchd. >> Actually, ovsdb-server could be external too, but let's not go there. ;) >> >> Any thoughts on removing that requirement [2]? My thinking is that >> ovn-central >> should only require the 'common' portion of ovn, which indirectly >> requires just >> the 'common' part of openvswitch. >> > > Just so that there is no confusion I want to clarify that ovsdb-server > currently exists in the openvswitch-switch package. > > ovn-ctl scripts start ovsdb-server while starting ovn-northd. So there is > a dependency as of now. >
Heh, that is what I failed to understand, until today's OVN meeting. Thanks for the much needed clarification! With that, I can totally see how changing this is not a one-liner, and likely something low in the todo list. -- flaviof > >> Thanks, >> >> flaviof >> >> [1]: >> >> https://github.com/openstack/networking-ovn/blob/master/vagrant/Vagrantfile#L33 >> >> [2]: >> ==> ovn-db: Preparing to unpack .../ovn-central_2.5.90-1_amd64.deb ... >> ==> ovn-db: Unpacking ovn-central (2.5.90-1) ... >> ==> ovn-db: Setting up openvswitch-common (2.5.90-1) ... >> ==> ovn-db: Setting up ovn-common (2.5.90-1) ... >> ==> ovn-db: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of >> ovn-central: >> *==> ovn-db: ovn-central depends on openvswitch-switch (= 2.5.90-1)*; >> however: >> ==> ovn-db: Package openvswitch-switch is not installed. >> ==> ovn-db: >> ==> ovn-db: dpkg: error processing package ovn-central (--install): >> ==> ovn-db: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured >> ==> ovn-db: Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... >> ==> ovn-db: Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ... >> ==> ovn-db: Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.9) ... >> ==> ovn-db: Errors were encountered while processing: >> ==> ovn-db: ovn-central >> ==> ovn-db: + echo sudo dpkg -i >> /vagrant/provisioning/pkgs/openvswitch-common_2.5.90-1_amd64.deb >> /vagrant/provisioning/pkgs/ovn-common_2.5.90-1_amd64.deb >> /vagrant/provisioning/pkgs/ovn-central_2.5.90-1_amd64.deb >> >> >
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