[PATCH] Having systemtap-crash subpackage rpm

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> writes:

> I have been experimenting with the support for kdump/crash and
> trying to write things up. The first thing I noticed is the flag to
> control building crash analysis support. The current RPM build has
> that turned off to avoid having the main systemtap RPM have
> dependencies on crash.

That's not the reason.  And indeed, including staplog.so in the
systemtap package does not require a dependency on the crash rpm,
only a buildreq on crash-devel.  That latter buildreq is the problem:
crash-devel is not universally available.


> Experiences trying out kdump/crash to extract the information were
> not entirely successful. [...]

Right, this area is not tested/maintained well enough.  Please open a
bug report.


- FChE