Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf archive: Explain how to use the generated tarball

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> wrote:

> Em Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:49:29PM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> > * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> > > 
> > > [root@doppio ~]# perf archive
> > > Now please run:
> > > 
> > > $ tar xvf perf.data.tar.bz2 -C ~/.debug
> > > 
> > > wherever you need to run 'perf report' on.
> > > [root@doppio ~]#
> > 
> > hm, i think it would be nicer to have a way to both pack and unpack an archive 
> > that is in the current directory. Something like:
> > 
> >   perf archive pack
> >   perf archive unpack
> > 
> > or so?
> 
> Yes, its just that this was easy enough to improve the current situation, 
> this is still a shell script that I wrote as a way to show how to do some 
> porcelain out of 'perf buildid-list'.
> 
> But it probably will be better to have it as a full fledged tool, as I can 
> imagine people asking for .tar.xz support, and I also want to be able to 
> tell it to strip debugging information, putting there just the symtabs, etc.

Yeah - although we definitely want to keep it relatively simple - robust 
archiving and cross-system transport is abot simplicity.

> So if you can get this one in, the current situation would be improved and 
> I'll eventually get to implement your suggestion.

Sure, just wanted to mention this.

	Ingo