diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ov/ovn/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ov/ovn/package.nix
index 2f8512778db7..627a62f85d53 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ov/ovn/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ov/ovn/package.nix
@@ -52,7 +52,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     popd
   '';
 
-  configureFlags = [ "--localstatedir=/var" ];
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--localstatedir=/var"
+    "--with-dbdir=/var/lib/ovn"
+    "--enable-ssl"
+  ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
@@ -66,7 +70,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   postInstall = ''
     mkdir -vp $out/share/openvswitch/scripts
+    mkdir -vp $out/etc/ovn
+    cp ovs/utilities/ovs-appctl $out/share/openvswitch/scripts
+    cp ovs/utilities/ovs-vsctl $out/share/openvswitch/scripts
     cp ovs/utilities/ovs-lib $out/share/openvswitch/scripts
+    sed -i "s#/usr/local/bin#$out/share/openvswitch/scripts#g" $out/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-lib
+    sed -i "s#/usr/local/sbin#$out/share/openvswitch/scripts#g" $out/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-lib
+    sed -i '/chown -R $INSTALL_USER:$INSTALL_GROUP $ovn_etcdir/d' $out/share/ovn/scripts/ovn-ctl
   '';
 
   # https://docs.ovn.org/en/latest/topics/testing.html