[elrepo] kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-$KERNEL.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-$KERNEL.x86_64.rpm packages?

Akemi Yagi toracat at elrepo.org
Mon Aug 12 15:27:42 EDT 2013


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Mark Selby <mselby at quantcast.com> wrote:
> All of the stock RHEL/CentOS kernels are built using a spec file that
> creates two debug packages that are required if you ever want to run crash
> against a kernel dump. We have a requirement to move to a 3.x kernel in our
> CentOS environment because of a kernel bug fix that has not yet been back
> ported to RHEL/CentOS branch.

Can you elaborate on the bug fix you are referring to?. Wonder if this
is something that *can* be backported to the current EL kernel without
much difficulty. If so, that would be a better solution than running a
mainline kernel.

Akemi


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