Description of problem: FDP 2.17 is requested to be used for OSP 17 rhosp-openstack will need to be updated to point to the updated package that will be available. It also appears the network-scripts-openvswitch2.17 is not present. This will need to be verified and updated accordingly.
bug 2076450 was filed after an initial attempt to update 2.17
Copying from Terry's email on fd-lp and adding blockers for updating to OVS 2.17: >> As we're planning to support OVN RAFT in 17, we definitely need a compose with OVS 2.17 which includes the necessary python-ovs code to enable this. In addition to waiting on OVS 2.17 for python-ovs RAFT support, it's also been found that the patch that added RAFT support to python-ovs actually breaks Neutron and ovsdbapp's use of what was assumed to be an internal API (but was not marked as such by a leading underscore). Neutron *will not start* with the OVS 2.17 as-is. There is a patch in upstream ovs to restore backward compatibility [1] which will not make it before our downstream 2.17 GA FDP release. There are workarounds upstream for Neutron [2] and ovdbapp [3], and a stable/wallaby release of ovsdbapp [4] that needs to be merged. Once the upstream ovsdbapp release is made, we need to import that downstream and then we can merge the upstream stable/wallaby neutron patch and merge it downstream as well. Then everything should be fine. I have created ovsdbapp [5], Neutron [6], and ovs [7] BZs to track that this is all done. [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/20220413135226.593135-1-twilson@redhat.com/ [2] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/838784 [3] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/ovsdbapp/+/834729 [4] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/releases/+/838517 [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077165 [6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077246 [7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077265
There is another ovs patch needed to fix another backward compatibility edge case: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/20220430200952.863496-1-twilson@redhat.com/ (which is going to be updated soon to remove usage of python f-string because it isn't supported in py 3.5 which ubuntu 16.04 uses).