Yum repos to add to enable us to install bridge-utils about photon

[toliaqat]

I assume you have installed Photon full from TP1 release that is not pointing to right repo. For the moment try downloading and installing manually using following commands.

wget https://dl.bintray.com/vmware/photon_release_1.0_x86_64/x86_64/bridge-utils-1.5-1.x86_64.rpm

rpm -Uvh bridge-utils-1.5-1.x86_64.rpm

Or

You can also try changing the /etc/yum.repos.d/photon.repo with following baseurl

baseurl=https://dl.bintray.com/vmware/photon_release_1.0_x86_64
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/PHOTON-RPM-GPG-KEY

then

yum clean all
yum install bridge-utils

I tried above on TP1 full installation and it got brctl command working.

You can try the following build which has bridge-utils installed by default in Full.

https://bintray.com/artifact/download/vmware/photon/photon-1.0.0-195.iso

[willemdh]

Toliaqat,

I changed

https://dl.bintray.com/vmware/photon_release_1.0_TP1_x86_64
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

to

https://dl.bintray.com/vmware/photon_release_1.0_x86_64
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/PHOTON-RPM-GPG-KEY

and did

yum clean all
yum install bridge-utils

and was able to install bridge-utils.
Thanks for the help! Some other questions popup. As doing

yum check-update

Now suddenly gives me a whole range of packages to be updated. If I do update them all, would this imply my Photon server is at version 1.0.0-195? As I indeed installed TP1, it would be nice if I don't have to reinstall later in time so I'm not longer working on a technical preview?
Or would I have to start from scratch with a new iso version to be up-to-date?

Between the updates I also see

photon-release                                              noarch                                1.1-1   

Is this the version of the Photon server? Is it already at 1.1-1 then? The Photon iso download link at https://vmware.github.io/photon/ is still TP1..

Grtz and tx

[toliaqat]

Technical preview might not get updated automatically with the new version. And you would have to re-install new TP because there are expected changes that might not be compatible with two TPs. The ISO I provided to you is from our nightly build.
I should not have suggested to change photon.repo to point to new server because that path is not tested and we don't know what is going to break if you start update process from there. This path definitely not recommended for TP1.

Downloading the bridge-utils-rpm should have the simplest solution to have bridge-utils working in your TP1 installation, for now.
Or may be start using the ISO 1.0.0-195 to experiment on the latest build repo.

[willemdh]

Hmm I guess it's too late for that. I'll see if I can start from scratch with the 1.0.0-195 iso. I hope I don't have to start from scratch too much.. :) Is there (contrary to the TP1) an upgrade process for the 1.0.0-195 release to later versions? Or would I have to start from scratch again when a newer version is released?

[toliaqat]

We are working on that story and by 1.0 we will definitely have it squared to upgrade from 1.0 to next version.

[willemdh]

Ok, Guess I'm going to wait until upgrading is officially supported.