Re: [Xen-users] New Xen install over SuSE 10.3. Installed bridge-utils not seen by Xen RPM

[Jens Seidel <jensseidel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 04:44:20PM -0500, Petrus B. van Bork wrote:
>                                  Alas, I am something of a Linux newbie 
> as well as a real Xen newbie.  Have been preparing a brand new machine 
> to run Xen and decided to install the SuSE distro.  When I rpm'd the 

I think that Debian is a more stable, simplifies upgrades and has much
more packages. But a newbie may indeed prefer YaST ...

> appropriate Xen files I originally got a number of dependency errors.  I 
> am down to one -
> 
> "Failed dependencies: bridge-utils is needed by xen-3.1.0-1.i686"
> 
>       I have Yasted the requisite files several times.  I have made 

A simple question: Did you installed the bridge-utils via YaST or not?
Verify with:
$ rpm -qa | grep bridge
Does it output bridge-utils, is the rpm package installed?

> sure those files are compiled - autoconf, ./configure and make.  I have 

Compiling your own binary would not be recognized as rpm dependency. If
a rpm package requires bridge-utils than it refers to the rpm package
not a binary somewhere in your system!

You're free to compile from source (but I hope you didn't used
--prefix=/usr but --prefix=usr/local as configure option as all files in
/usr (except /usr/local) are owned by rpm packages.). There are so
called source rpm packages which can be used to rebuild a rpm package
from source (using rpmbuild command). But don't do this in this case. It
is not necessary!

> ensured that there is a brctl.exe in the sbin directory.  Issuing the 

I'm sure no program whould ever start brctl.exe. Maybe brctl ...

> brctl command gives "Usage: brctl [commands]..." etc....the usual menu 
> of commands.
> 
>       I have read bridge-util documentation and searched the net till I 
> am blue in the face!  If someone has any idea what I have done wrong, I 
> would be most grateful for any pointers.

Just install the rpm package so that it is listed in the rpm database as
installed. That's all!

Jens

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