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.

>
> 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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