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Re: New Systemtap-0.8 RPM available for testing on Fedora 8 and Fedora 9
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>
- Cc: William Cohen <wcohen at redhat dot com>, SystemTAP <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:24:38 -0500
- Subject: Re: New Systemtap-0.8 RPM available for testing on Fedora 8 and Fedora 9
- References: <49246BEC.2020605@redhat.com> <1227180723.3306.10.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org>
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 SystemTap's version of uprobes is out of date.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