New Systemtap-0.8 RPM available for testing on Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

mjw wrote:

> [...]
> I couldn't figure out how to run the tests against the
> systemtap-testsuite package. Would like to run those to see how things
> look in the larger picture. How do you run them from the rpm?

Install systemtap-testsuite rpm.  cd /usr/share/systemtap*/testsuite.
make *check.

> One usability nit. If you have setup a stapdev group then if you run
> anything with user probes for the first time you will get:
>   SystemTap's version of uprobes is out of date.
> [...]
> I don't know much about packaging, but would it be possible to rebuild
> uprobes whenever a new kernel or systemtap rpm is installed?

Let's discuss further in PR5163.

- FChE