runtime control.c

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Tue Jul 5 20:05:00 GMT 2005


Hi -

> On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 15:42 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> >  It would be best not to have to upgrade systemtap every
> > time a kernel update goes out.
> 
> I think it is a reasonable requirement that systemtap be rebuilt for
> each kernel release, at least initially.

For what it's worth, I do not agree, just as it would be wrong to
to recompile kernel-utils, oprofile, etc., every time.

For the immediate future, these parts of the runtime will probably
need to be packaged into a separate rpm, as roland suggested.  Want
to give it a go?

- FChE
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