On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 05:08:26PM +0000, Mark Michelson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:06 AM Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 05:46:53PM +0100, Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> > > Without this commit is not possible to upgrade an openvswitch release
> > > that includes the commit ac416a3ab2d2 (for example 2.8.0) with another
> > release
> > > that includes the commit ac416a3ab2d2 (for example master or 2.8.1),
> > because
> > > rpm changes the user/group of /etc/openvswitch to root/root, but
> > ovsdb-server
> > > starts with the user openvswitch and so it doesn't have permissions to
> > write in
> > > /etc/openvswitch/conf.db.
> > >
> > > This patch tell rpm to use the openvswitch user and group for
> > > /etc/openvswitch and /etc/openvswitch/default.conf.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Mark Michelson <[email protected]>
> > > CC: aaron conole <[email protected]>
> > > Fixes: ac416a3ab2d2 ("redhat: dynamically allocate and reference ovs
> > user")
> > > Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <[email protected]>
> >
> > Applied to master, thanks!
> >
> > Does this need backporting?
> >
> 
> Yes, this needs to go in 2.8 as well. 2.7 and below are unaffected. Thank
> you.

Backported to 2.8.
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