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| author | emellor@leeni.uk.xensource.com <emellor@leeni.uk.xensource.com> | 2005-11-20 15:40:53 +0100 |
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| committer | emellor@leeni.uk.xensource.com <emellor@leeni.uk.xensource.com> | 2005-11-20 15:40:53 +0100 |
| commit | 9fc5d0e1cbbcdeb3516c283cc58a80f7467f7844 (patch) | |
| tree | 724d528872cb28e69223adfe9d6b5ecab78ca1d0 /tools/examples/README.incompatibilities | |
| parent | 35e6103a6876e68a7e59898554932415162ee804 (diff) | |
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Added document to collate information regarding distro-specific
incompatibilities in the commands that we are using in the scripts.
Signed-off-by: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xensource.com>
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diff --git a/tools/examples/README.incompatibilities b/tools/examples/README.incompatibilities new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2d2c9503cf --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/examples/README.incompatibilities @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Command Incompatibilities +========================= + +Known incompatibilities with various commands on various distributions, and +the workarounds we use. + + +brctl +----- + +brctl show <bridge> fails on SLES9 SP2. Workaround is to use brctl show +without arguments, and grep, though this would be difficult were you to need +to check for a specific bridge-interface pair, since brctl does not show the +bridge name on every line. + + +ifup / ifdown +------------- + +SuSE requires an extra parameter to ifup, which is created by calling getcfg +appropriately. See xen-network-common.sh for details. + +Gentoo doesn't have ifup/ifdown; appropriate alternatives are defined in +xen-network-common.sh. + |