On Saturday 04 April 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 04/03/2009 05:18 PM, Pär Andersson wrote:
However I think having debuginfo packages for the kernel in the main repository would really be a good thing as tools like oprofile and systemtap (both in base) need kernel-debuginfo to be usable.
btw, does the kernel-debug not give you already everything that is needed for systemtap/oprofile ? thats already there in the main distro tree.
kernel-debug is not at all what I typically want when I go looking for kernel-debuginfo. What I want is to run tools (like oprofile and systemtap) on that (running) system right there and then. Ideally that should go something like this:
1) uuh, I need to run this .stp-script 2) stap xxx.stp
But since the kernel-debuginfo, kernel-devel may typically be missing for the running kernel the following step would have to be done between 1 and 2:
1.5) yum install kernel-debuginfo kernel-devel
But since we today lack a yumified way of doing this the step above typically turns into:
* look for a mirror that has debuginfo (sometimes it stops here with debuginfo for the kernel missing) * download manually * install manually (including ignoring the fact that debuginfo packages are unsigned...)
So I guess the good news is that here we have a part of CentOS with great potential for improvements :-)
/Peter