On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Ryan Moats <rmo...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > Russell Bryant <russ...@ovn.org> wrote on 08/02/2016 12:00:08 PM: > >> From: Russell Bryant <russ...@ovn.org> >> To: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> >> Cc: Ryan Moats/Omaha/IBM@IBMUS, ovs dev <dev@openvswitch.org> >> Date: 08/02/2016 12:00 PM >> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] Add wrapper scripts for *ctl commands >> >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 07:56:27AM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote: >> > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Ryan Moats <rmo...@us.ibm.com> wrote: >> > >> > > This commit creates wrapper scripts for the *ctl commands to use >> > > --dry-run for those that have them, and to allow for log level >> > > setting via ovs-appctl without allowing full access to ovs-appctl. >> > > Tests have been added to make sure that the wrapper scripts >> > > don't actually do anything when asked to perform a write operation. >> > > >> > > Signed-off-by: Ryan Moats <rmo...@us.ibm.com> >> > > >> > >> > What's the motivation for all the new "read" scripts? It seems a bit >> > confusing to install all of these. They're also not documented > anywhere. >> >> My assumption had been that we'd put the options into the tree and then >> that the one-liner redirection scripts would be an IBM customization. >> After all, they need to customize somehow anyway to hide the read/write >> versions in some off-$PATH place. >> >> +1 to this approach. >> >> -- >> Russell Bryant > > Obviously, I think this is somewhat short-sighted (or I wouldn't have > proposed > the patch)... > > How about if we were to spin a new repo openvswitch/operator-tools (like > openvswitch/ovn-scale-test) > and put things like this *there*? > I'd be in favor of this approach, because I think having tools like this for cloud operators would be a good thing to share. And as one of the main users/committers into ovn-scale-test, I can also attest to how nice it is to have the shared github to work on so.
So I'm +1 to this new repository idea. > Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
