Re: 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: Friday, October 01, 2004 10:25 AM
Subject: [lkcd-general] Re: lcrash and debian


> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004, Tom Morano wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Are these RPMs available somewhere?

No, you would need to build them. At some point, we should have rpms
available to downlaod from the project web page. We are a bit away from that
now...

>
> > > 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.
>
> Am I correct in reading that there is a set of patches, in addition to
> the kernel patches, that are applied to the kernel to be able to use
> lkcdutils?

You are correct. I will send out an updated copy of these patches later
today.

Tom



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