Simple script to grab and install the appropriate kernel RPMs

[K.Prasad]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:13:48PM -0500, William Cohen wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In an effort to make it a bit easier to install systemtap on RHEL 
> machines, I have made a small script to figure out which RPMs to install 
> based either on the running kernel (no arguments to script) or the output 
> of "uname -r" as an argument to the script. This script is only designed 
> to work on RHEL. I would like to comments on it. The plan is to include 
> this in the Systemtap beginners guide to make it easier for people to 
> machine setup to run systemtap.
>

Just thinking if the script mitigates the problem seen with PAE and smp
versions of the kernel, wherein uname -r would contain the string PAE
and smp, and the kernel package's name isn't a simple 'kernel-debuginfo'
but a 'kernel-PAE-debuginfo'.

Thanks,
K.Prasad