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[Bug 1801919] Re: brctl is obsolete use ip

 

Reviewed:  https://review.openstack.org/617836
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/neutron/commit/?id=2572c158f5290ddc3bc2e4f06ecbd4768c82eee4
Submitter: Zuul
Branch:    master

commit 2572c158f5290ddc3bc2e4f06ecbd4768c82eee4
Author: Brian Haley <bhaley@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Nov 13 15:54:29 2018 -0500

    Change to use iproute2 instead of brctl
    
    brctl is being deprecated in some Linux distros, so
    change neutron to start using iproute2 commands or
    the pyroute2 library where possible.
    
    Added create() to IpLinkCommand class to allow usage
    of pyroute2 for bridge creation.
    
    Change-Id: If679e79fa3242ee1cd8610b5525deca35b41c87e
    Closes-bug: #1801919


** Changed in: neutron
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  brctl is obsolete  use ip

Status in devstack:
  In Progress
Status in neutron:
  Fix Released
Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  bridge-utils (brctl) is obsolete, no modern software should depend on it.
  Used in: neutron/agent/linux/bridge_lib.py

  http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/brctl.8.html

  Please use `ip` for basic bridge operations,
  than we can drop one obsolete dependency..

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