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Re: [XEN PATCH] CI: Remove `brctl` from Arch Linux container
- To: Anthony PERARD <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:58:06 +0000
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On 13/02/2026 10:19 am, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> From: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Package "bridge-utils" have been removed from the official repos, it
> contained `brctl`. That utility is used by network hotplug scripts,
> but they already check if it is available and switch to use "iproute2"
> (`ip`) when not.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Right now, README lists bridge-utils as a hard prereq, and this is not
true any longer.
iproute is also listed as a hard prereq. Should we merge these two
lines with a logical or?
> ---
> automation/build/archlinux/current.dockerfile | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/automation/build/archlinux/current.dockerfile
> b/automation/build/archlinux/current.dockerfile
> index 4e53c835fa..a257027772 100644
> --- a/automation/build/archlinux/current.dockerfile
> +++ b/automation/build/archlinux/current.dockerfile
> @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ LABEL maintainer.name="The Xen Project" \
> RUN pacman-key --init
>
> RUN pacman -S --refresh --sysupgrade --noconfirm --noprogressbar --needed \
> - bridge-utils \
> bzip2 \
> cpio \
> discount \
If you're making this change, I'd like to dust off patch to convert to
heredoc and get both submitted together.
~Andrew
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