[elrepo-devel] perf-xxx.noarch.rpm

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Alan Bartlett wrote:

> On 8 February 2011 20:52, Steve Clark <sclark at netwolves.com> wrote:
>
>> I can't seem to find the perf-xxx.noarch.rpm for the ml-kernels.
>
> They are userland packages, are they not?
>
> Are you able to build them? Any success? Or a resounding failure?
>
> Sorry for the succession of questions, Steve. This is now getting into
> a grey area with regards to exactly where the ELRepo Project's
> provision / support ends . . .
>
> I seem to recall that Dag (Wieers) mentioned the idea of perf support
> a number of months ago (before the birth of his daughter :-) ), so
> let's see is what Dag's current view on the subject.

A perf binary would indeed be useful, but beware, I remember that the 
binary was specific to a kernel version. So it would mean the binary is 
versioned as well and the alternatives-infrastructure needs to be used.

Hence, the binary needs to be build _with_ the kernel, and probably also 
ship as part of the kernel RPM. Not sure how Fedora is doing this though. 
Probably worth looking into.

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