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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?

Thanks,
Kevin Benton


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com>
wrote:

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> 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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