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Re: Kdump
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Csepp |
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Re: Kdump |
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Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:45:10 +0200 |
Christina O'Donnell <cdo@mutix.org> writes:
> Hi guix and guixesses,
>
> I'm still enjoying my guix machine crashing every other week despite changing
> all the software and half the hardware. So I'm trying to get kdump
> working so I can get to the real reason behind it. However I see that
> kdump-tools haven't been packaged yet. I see this as an opportunity for me to
> contribute to Guix, but it'll be my first time.
>
> - How interested would people be in me packaging kdump and related tools?
More debugging tools (and docs!) are always welcome IMHO.
> - Is there a reason why it's not there already?
>
> - Has it been tried before?
Searching the mailing lists doesn't turn up much, so I assume no one has
tried it:
https://yhetil.org/guix/?q=kdump
> The scope seems to be around 3-4 packages and a system service. Does that
> sound about right or could there be more I'm missing?
>
> On Debian there's:
>
> crash/testing,now 8.0.2-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> kernel debugging utility, allowing gdb like syntax
>
> kdump-tools/testing,now 1:1.8.1 amd64 [installed]
> scripts and tools for automating kdump (Linux crash dumps)
>
> libkdumpfile-dev/testing 0.5.1-1 amd64
> libkdumpfile development libraries and header files
>
> libkdumpfile-doc/testing,testing 0.5.1-1 all
> Kernel coredump file access (documentation)
>
> libkdumpfile10/testing 0.5.1-1 amd64
> Kernel coredump file access
>
> python3-libkdumpfile/testing 0.5.1-1 amd64
> Python bindings for libkdumpfile
>
> I'd want to package all of these except the python bindings. I see that
> kexec-tools is already in guix which is good!
>
> Is this a sensible direction?
>
> Kind regards,
> - Christina
I'd say go for it! If they are mostly written in C then you probably
don't have to package a lot of transitive dependencies. Looking in
gnu/packages/linux.scm could be a good starting point for packaging
kernel related tools.
- Kdump, Christina O'Donnell, 2023/07/30