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Re: [PATCH] Having systemtap-crash subpackage rpm
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: William Cohen <wcohen at redhat dot com>
- Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:40:52 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Having systemtap-crash subpackage rpm
- References: <4BBF9DD1.6020009@redhat.com>
William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> writes:
> I have been experimenting with the support for kdump/crash and
> trying to write things up. The first thing I noticed is the flag to
> control building crash analysis support. The current RPM build has
> that turned off to avoid having the main systemtap RPM have
> dependencies on crash.
That's not the reason. And indeed, including staplog.so in the
systemtap package does not require a dependency on the crash rpm,
only a buildreq on crash-devel. That latter buildreq is the problem:
crash-devel is not universally available.
> Experiences trying out kdump/crash to extract the information were
> not entirely successful. [...]
Right, this area is not tested/maintained well enough. Please open a
bug report.
- FChE