On 23 December 2015 at 09:28, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 07:30:48AM -0800, Guru Shetty wrote: > > > I'm not sure about the dependency on openvswitch-switch. One could run > > > northd and the nb and sb database on a machine that does not have an > > > openvswitch switch running; it might even be preferred in a large > > > deployment. What do you think? > > > > openvswitch-switch has ovs-lib and ovn-ctl depends on it, hence the > > dependency. > > If it's just a matter of ovs-lib, then we could easily move that into > openvswitch-common. > > .....
> > I understand why we'd want those utilities here, just not why we'd want > to run an Open vSwitch switch on OVN database nodes. > Purely for the above statement, the answer is what Russell mentioned. A database node needs ovsdb-server. But ovn-common need not depend on openvswitch-switch if ovs-lib is moved to openvswitch-common. ovn-central should depend on openvswitch-switch though. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
