From 9fc5d0e1cbbcdeb3516c283cc58a80f7467f7844 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "emellor@leeni.uk.xensource.com" Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:40:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Added document to collate information regarding distro-specific incompatibilities in the commands that we are using in the scripts. Signed-off-by: Ewan Mellor --- tools/examples/README.incompatibilities | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/examples/README.incompatibilities 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 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. + -- 2.30.2