Source: lxc Version: 1:2.0.9-6 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
I've tried investigating why lxc has a Recommends: bridge-utils, but unfortunately haven't found anything information why it's there or why it was added initially. I can only find usage of the 'brctl' command in: 1: ./templates/lxc-gentoo.in 2: ./src/tests/lxc-test-usernic.in The second one seems to only conditionally be installed on ubuntu according to src/tests/Makefile.am, so not relevant. I'm not sure how relevant the first one is either, but I'll include a trivial (untested) patch you can drop into debian/patches if you'd like it to use bridge (from iproute2) instead. I hope this means bridge-utils can be dropped (or replaced by iproute2 if needed). If you know of any reason not to drop bridge-utils I'd like to hear about it! Regards, Andreas Henriksson
From: Andreas Henriksson <[email protected]> Subject: Replace bridge-utils/brctl usage with iproute2/bridge --- a/templates/lxc-gentoo.in +++ b/templates/lxc-gentoo.in @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ #No NIC ? if [[ ${nic_count} == 0 ]]; then #If no Nic, no need to continue - bridge=$(brctl show | awk 'NR==2 {print $1}') + bridge=$(bridge link show | awk 'NR==1 {print $2}') if [[ "${bridge}" != "" ]]; then store_user_message "No network interface for this container It's a pitty, you have bridge, ${bridge}.
