It appears that Redhat don’t care about quagga at all. I installed it on a couple of boxes for testing and it simply didn’t work. The package was completely broke. Lots and lots of people having the same problem. It also appears that there is a broken dep in net-snmp-devel which had knock on effects for building quagga from the source rpm.

Redhat ship 0.97.1 or similar with RHEL (off which centos is based and is what we use). I had a look around on the web to find an rpm that would work, to no avail. I then thought, lets get a src rpm and build it. Easy you would think. Now admitedly I should have spotted the problem sooner, but I was fed up looking at it yesterday. net-snmp-devel requires openssl for most of its uses, so the src rpm for quagga tells you it needs net-snmp-devel. So you install it. It simply wouldn’t build.

fix: install openssl and openssl-devel

I’ve got the 3 working rpms for centos 4.2 available to download here, if you find a problem with them get back to me. But they work fine on centos for me, I’ve tried to install it on some of our webservers just to cross check to make sure there was nothing special or odd about the setup I was using.