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?
- Is there a reason why it's not there already?
- Has it been tried before?
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