Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] fedora: do not restart the service on a pkg upgrade

2016-10-20 Thread Russell Bryant
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Flavio Leitner  wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 03:26:10PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Flavio Leitner  wrote:
> >
> > > There is no reliable way to restore the previous networking
> > > state after a service restart. Many things like firewall
> > > configuration, traffic shaping, stacked devices, custom setups
> > > are completely out of OVS control.
> > >
> > > The OVS might be providing the network used for remote
> > > administration, so do not automatically restart the service
> > > during a package upgrade.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner 
> > >
> >
> > Do you think this should be backported, as well?
>
> Yeah, it sounds like a good idea.
> Thanks Russell,
>

OK, I applied this to master, branch-2.6, and branch-2.5.

Thanks,

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Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] fedora: do not restart the service on a pkg upgrade

2016-10-20 Thread Flavio Leitner
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 03:26:10PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Flavio Leitner  wrote:
> 
> > There is no reliable way to restore the previous networking
> > state after a service restart. Many things like firewall
> > configuration, traffic shaping, stacked devices, custom setups
> > are completely out of OVS control.
> >
> > The OVS might be providing the network used for remote
> > administration, so do not automatically restart the service
> > during a package upgrade.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner 
> >
> 
> Do you think this should be backported, as well?

Yeah, it sounds like a good idea.
Thanks Russell,
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Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] fedora: do not restart the service on a pkg upgrade

2016-10-19 Thread Russell Bryant
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Flavio Leitner  wrote:

> There is no reliable way to restore the previous networking
> state after a service restart. Many things like firewall
> configuration, traffic shaping, stacked devices, custom setups
> are completely out of OVS control.
>
> The OVS might be providing the network used for remote
> administration, so do not automatically restart the service
> during a package upgrade.
>
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner 
>

Do you think this should be backported, as well?

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