[openstack-dev] [Neutron] - Location for common third-party libs?
Ihar Hrachyshka
ihrachys at redhat.com
Thu Jul 17 13:49:26 UTC 2014
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On 16/07/14 20:42, Kevin Benton wrote:
> I have filed a bug in Red Hat[1], however I'm not sure if it's in
> the right place.
>
> Ihar, can you verify that it's correct or move it to the
> appropriate location?
Thank you, it's correct. Let's follow up in bugzilla.
>
> 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120332
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Ihar Hrachyshka
> <ihrachys at redhat.com <mailto:ihrachys at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
> Reviving the old thread.
>
> On 17/06/14 11:23, Kevin Benton wrote:
>> Hi Ihar,
>
>> What is the reason to breakup neutron into so many packages? A
>> quick disk usage stat shows the plugins directory is currently
>> 3.4M. Is that considered to be too much space for a package, or
>> was it for another reason?
>
> I think the reasoning was that we don't want to pollute systems
> with unneeded files, and it seems to be easily achievable by
> splitting files into separate packages. It turned out now it's not
> that easy now that we have dependencies between ml2 mechanisms and
> separate plugins.
>
> So I would be in favor of merging plugin packages back into
> python-neutron package. AFAIK there is still no bug for that in
> Red Hat Bugzilla, so please report one.
>
>
>> Thanks, Kevin Benton
>
>
>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Ihar Hrachyshka
>> <ihrachys at redhat.com <mailto:ihrachys at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>> On 17/06/14 00:10, Anita Kuno wrote:
>>>>> On 06/16/2014 06:02 PM, Kevin Benton wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the Big Switch ML2 driver, we rely on quite a bit of
>>>>>> code from the Big Switch plugin. This works fine for
>>>>>> distributions that include the entire neutron code base.
>>>>>> However, some break apart the neutron code base into
>>>>>> separate packages. For example, in CentOS I can't use
>>>>>> the Big Switch ML2 driver with just ML2 installed because
>>>>>> the Big Switch plugin directory is gone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there somewhere where we can put common third party
>>>>>> code that will be safe from removal during packaging?
>>>>>>
>
>> Hi,
>
>> I'm a neutron packager for redhat based distros.
>
>> AFAIK the main reason is to avoid installing lots of plugins to
>> systems that are not going to use them. No one really spent too
>> much time going file by file and determining internal
>> interdependencies.
>
>> In your case, I would move those Brocade specific ML2 files to
>> Brocade plugin package. I would suggest to report the bug in Red
>> Hat bugzilla. I think this won't get the highest priority, but
>> once packagers will have spare cycles, this can be fixed.
>
>> Cheers, /Ihar
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