Bug 305855

Summary: the makedumpfile tool, needed for enabling compressed kdumps, is not in the standard repository
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: Jiri Dluhos <jdluhos>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Christoph Thiel <cthiel>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Blocker    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 2   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Description Jiri Dluhos 2007-08-29 11:22:28 UTC 
When trying to enable compressed kdump images in YaST, the tool attempts to install the makedumpfile tool, which is however not available in any of standard repositories (not even Factory), so this fails.

Setting to blocker, sorry for this, but it blocks openSUSE 10.3.
Comment 1 Jozef Uhliarik 2007-08-29 14:26:14 UTC 
I did correction for bug#301399 (yast2-kdump: Install makedumpfile if necessary)
Comment 3 Christoph Thiel 2007-08-29 14:40:07 UTC 
It's not on the CD or DVD. But as Bernard already pointed out, it's on the FTP tree. If it's required by yast2-kdump, please add a proper requires and it will be pulled in to the DVD automatically...
Comment 4 Bernhard Walle 2007-08-29 14:43:07 UTC 
Please add NO requires. makedumpfile is only needed if KDUMP_DUMPLEVEL != 0 or KDUMP_DUMPFORMAT != "ELF". Because the default is to use KDUMP_DUMPLEVEL=0 and KDUMP_DUMPFORMAT=ELF, it's not necessary to hard-require it from the spec file and make deinstallation of makedumpfile impossible.
Comment 5 Christoph Thiel 2007-08-29 14:54:52 UTC 
In this case a Recommends is probably the better. Or nothing at all, if it's really as optional.
Comment 6 Bernhard Walle 2007-08-29 14:57:03 UTC 
Recommends is ok. Will this pull makedumpfile to the CD?
Comment 7 Bernhard Walle 2007-08-29 14:57:16 UTC 
s/CD/DVD/
Comment 8 Christoph Thiel 2007-08-29 15:04:36 UTC 
Yes, it will pull it into the DVD. Since yast2-kdump isn't on the CDs, it will not change the CDs at all.