[Crash-utility] mod -S and debuginfo kernel rpm

[Guy Streeter]

Dave Anderson wrote:
> ----- "Guy Streeter" <streeter at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Guy -- are you on board with this?
>> This looks good to me.
>>  In our automated setup environment we always create a script in the
>> same dir as the vmcore that will start crash with the right vmcore and
>> vmlinux filenames on the commandline. It would be really cool if we
>> could specify the module search prefix there as well, so "mod -S" would
>> "just work". Being able to use "mod -S ." is enough, though.
> 
> Fair enough -- it's easy enough to add a new command line option
> to specify the target module directory.  I'll do that.
> 
> Just curious though, why not have a single modules-tree location for
> each kernel release instead of duplicating the trees for every
> vmlinux/vmcore instantiation?
> 
> Dave

I'll suggest that to the CAS developers/admins. I believe they currently
doing something to symlink debuginfos everywhere to avoid duplication.
--Guy