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.
Ah I must have missed this in my inbox. Thanks for the feedback!
I'll have a go at this once some more time appears in my day.