Re: lcrash and debian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Micah Anderson" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Morano" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Hariprasad Nellitheertha" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>; "lkcd-devel"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: lcrash and debian


> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Tom Morano wrote:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Micah Anderson" <[email protected]>
> > To: "Tom Morano" <[email protected]>
> > Cc: "Hariprasad Nellitheertha" <[email protected]>;
> > <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 1:25 PM
> > Subject: lcrash and debian
> >
> >
> > > In order to make lcrash available as a debian package, I need to sort
> > > out a couple things, I am hoping you folks can help me.
> > >
> > > First off, what is lkcdutils? Is it a combination of utilities from
other
> > > locations, modified specifically to work with lkcd?
> >
> > lkcdutils is the application/utility side of the LKCD project. It
contains
> > utilities for configuring the system to generate crash dumps, save dumps
> > after a system crash/reboot, and analyze the resulting dumps. lkcdutils
also
> > contains various libraries for accessing kernel data in a dump image (or
> > live system memory).
>
> This is how I understood lkcdutils as well, but when I begain putting
> it together for debian I got confused as to all the different elements
> involved.
>
> What I would like to do for debian is take the user-land binaries of
> the utilities for creating dumps and analysis and put them in a
> package called lkcdutils. Then I would like to put all the libraries
> and other useful development pieces in a separate lkcdutils-dev
> package. This is typically how it is done in Debian. Once I get my
> hands on lkcdutils I will probably need your help sorting out the
> pieces.

It should be set up already to do this. Three rpms get built (with the
current spec file). lkcdutils, lkcdutils-devel, and a source rpm.

>
> Is there a "release" of lkcdutils that corresponds with the newest
> patch-sets? This would be the best for me to get, however I can also
> pull from CVS the appropriate things and create for myself a tarball
> to build the package from. Please let me know how I should do this so
> I can get started.

I posted this (patch set) last week and will post a new, updated copy later
today. Since this is what I am planning on pushing into the CVS tree, I
would appreciate if you could do you testing (against Bob's kernel patches)
using the current CVS soruce plus my lkcdutils patch set.

Thanks,

Tom



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