#5391 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Use iproute2 instead of bridge-utils in bridge service
| Reported by: | ojab | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | x-future |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description ¶
bridge-utils is unnecessary for setting up a bridge, only iproute2 can be used.
Change History (5)
by , 11 years ago
| Attachment: | bridge_use_iproute.patch added |
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comment:1 by , 11 years ago
| Milestone: | 7.6 → future |
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Moving to future. The current bridge service works fine and this change is quite a bit more intrusive than it first appears. Removing brctl from, the script means that the script needs to be moved from bridge-utils to somewhere else. The most logical place would be LFS instead of BLFS.
The only place a bridge is used in BLFS is for qemu network scripts. Removing bridge-utils would require updating those scripts that also work well. Note also that the bridge-utils package is a trivial build (about 2 seconds).
At this time, the change is more effort than it is worth.
comment:2 by , 10 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
The suggestion is valid, but the changes make reading the script slightly less clear. The change does not provide significant advantages and the current methodology works quite well.
Use iproute2 instead of bridge-utils, trailing whitespace cleanups