Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

Don Zickus
2007-07-19T17:08:39Z

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:49:53PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> [2007-07-19 18:39]:
> >
> > I am not a big fan of this approach as it forces distros to require
> > kexec-tools when building a kernel. Even Joe Hacker who wants a custom
> > kernel (and not interested in kexec) would have to not only download the
> > kernel.src.rpm but kexec-tools just to build a kernel that probably
> > doesn't have kexec enabled.
>
> He would have to download makedumpfile, not kexec-tools.

My apologies. Red Hat packages makedumpfile under kexec-tools, hence my
confusion.

Cheers,
Don