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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20090406/e1bb0b95/attachment-0007.sig>