On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:16:32AM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > Working through symlinks is undesirable when one can avoid it.
> >
> > The Debian packaging still sets up the symlinks for compatibility with
> > existing software that expects the database to be in /etc/openvswitch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
> > ---
> >  debian/rules |    4 ++--
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
> > index 51a2e51..88a9a28 100755
> > --- a/debian/rules
> > +++ b/debian/rules
> > @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ configure-stamp:
> >         cd _debian && ( \
> >                 test -e Makefile || \
> >                 ../configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var
> > --enable-ssl \
> > -                       --sysconfdir=/etc CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" \
> > -                       $(DATAPATH_CONFIGURE_OPTS))
> > +                       --sysconfdir=/etc
> > --with-dbdir=/var/lib/openvswitch \
> > +                       CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" $(DATAPATH_CONFIGURE_OPTS))
> >
> Do we still need to create those symlinks in /etc/openvswitch after
> you configure OVS binaries to use /var/lib/openvswitch directly? Who
> is going to use them?

I'm worried that there is software (mostly scripts) outside the OVS tree
itself that expects to find the database in /etc.  One example, for
example, is xen-bugtool, although it's not a great example since so far
we're only changing the database location for Debian systems.
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