Hi Dave, What about including the extensions (especially sial) in the crash rpm? Or maybe even better, create a second crash-extensions sub package. Michael Here a proposal for the SPEC file change: --- --- crash.spec.orig 2009-02-12 13:05:11.000000000 +0100 +++ crash.spec 2009-02-12 14:38:11.000000000 +0100 @@ -36,12 +36,25 @@ netdump, diskdump and kdump packages from Red Hat Linux, the mcore kernel patch offered by Mission Critical Linux, or the LKCD kernel patch. +%package extensions +Summary: Additional commands for the crash dump analysis tool +Group: Development/Debuggers + +%description extensions +The extensions package contains plugins that provide additional crash +commands. The extensions can be loaded in crash via the "extend" command. + +The following extensions are provided: +* sial: Provides C-like language for writing dump analysis scripts +* dminfo: Device-mapper target analyzer + %prep %setup -n %{name}-%{version}-%{release} # %patch0 -p1 -b .install (patch example) %build make RPMPKG="%{version}-%{release}" +make RPMPKG="%{version}-%{release}" extensions %install rm -rf %{buildroot} @@ -51,6 +64,8 @@ cp crash.8 %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man8/crash.8 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_includedir}/crash cp defs.h %{buildroot}%{_includedir}/crash +mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/lib/crash +cp extensions/*.so %{buildroot}/usr/lib/crash %clean rm -rf %{buildroot} @@ -63,3 +78,7 @@ %files devel %defattr(-,root,root) %{_includedir}/* + +%files extensions +%defattr(-,root,root) +/usr/lib/crash/*