[rdo-users] openvswitch -> dpdk -> ... dependency

[Alex Schultz]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 5:51 PM iain MacDonnell <rdo-list at dseven.org> wrote:
>
> I just tried to apply the latest Rocky updates, and found that
> python2-openvswitch-2.9.0-3.el7.noarch.rpm has been replaced by
> python-openvswitch-2.10.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm, and that has dependencies
> on a bunch of dpdk libraries. After Googling around, I found dpdk in
> the Extras repo (I have not had to install anything from Extras until
> now), but after installing that, I'm getting spew like this:
>
> PMD: net_mlx5: cannot load glue library: libibverbs.so.1: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> PMD: net_mlx5: cannot initialize PMD due to missing run-time
> dependency on rdma-core libraries (libibverbs, libmlx5)
> PMD: net_mlx4: cannot load glue library: libibverbs.so.1: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> PMD: net_mlx4: cannot initialize PMD due to missing run-time
> dependency on rdma-core libraries (libibverbs, libmlx4)
>

Not exactly related to the request but `yum install libibverbs` will
stop this stuff from showing up.  it seems to be a missing soft
dependency that should probably be included in one of the related
packages.

>
> I don't even use openvswitch! I use linuxbridge... but because
> openstack-neutron requires python2-ovsdbapp, I'm getting dragged into
> this dependency hell.
>
> I'm a bit miffed about having to deal with this when updating a
> supposedly stable release.
>
> Could (all of) the packages required by the new python-openvswitch be
> added to the openstack-rocky repo ?
>
> Or could the requirement for python2-ovsdbapp be dropped, since it's
> not actually required for all deployments?
>
>     ~iain
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