Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] DTrace

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields at fieldses dot org>]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:29:28PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:16:37PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > 
> > That would be nice.  But I'm afraid I normally don't even have access to
> > the kernel tree on the machine I'm installing to--I usually build a
> > monolithic kernel and then scp it to the test machines.  Is there hope
> > for me?
> > 
> 
> Well, that's why I build kernels packaged up in .deb format; it's much
> easier to scp a .deb file over to a test machine and install it.  The
> take-home here is that "make deb-pkg" and "make rpm-pkg" should
> ideally create bare-bones linux-image, linux-headers, and
> linux-debuginfo packages.  Maybe no distribution will ever use it, but
> it will be invaluable for kernel developers.

Oh, sure, that's a good idea.

One other minor consideration: I do sometimes find myself building on my
laptop while away on a slow network, and wanting to install the result
on a test machine back at the office.  So it's nice if the resulting
debs or rpms aren't too much larger than they need to be.

Though scp'ing a kernel in that situation is already pretty slow, so
I've mostly gotten used to doing a git push to a machine in the same
room as the test machines, then building there.

--b.

> The good news is that a member of the Debian kernel team member
> contacted me off-line and mentioned that he plans to work with Sam to
> send a patch series to get "make deb-pkg" working again, and in the
> long term with proper debuginfo support.  Maybe someone will be
> inspired to enhance "rpm-pkg" to do the right thing.
> 
> 	    	    	      	    	      - Ted