Simple script to grab and install the appropriate kernel RPMs

[William Cohen]

David Smith wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Here's the script I've used for awhile now (as you'll see since it
> supports releases back to FC5).  It isn't much different than your
> script, except it also supports Fedora.  Note that it currently doesn't
> handle PAE kernels, but it could be made to handle that.
> 

Thanks, David for the script. Did you try to use the yum_kdebug.sh script for 
cross compiling examples? I noticed when trying to use "yum install" that yum 
would complain about installing kernels older than the currently installed kernel.

I would like to revise the stapprep.sh scrip to handle fedora repos correctly. 
There is the DEBUGINFOREPO variable that should be set appropriate for the 
various fedoras.

-Will