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From: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Newbie Notes
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 05:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMsr+YERz2wB1U2NZUN1+mXmhPbrBgOZx0AGN5Ui7yEVMTCCXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191108120338.GA22271@redhat.com>

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019, 20:03 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi -
>
> > Aha. Makes sense.
> >
> > I can work around the PATH issues with @var etc by generating a .tapm
> > script with the paths templated in, then use that in a tapset that
> defines
> > the probe aliases etc.
> >
> > That'll work well enough that I think I can prepare a usable tapset for
> > PostgreSQL.
>
> And if that tapset is in a tapset directory, then the unused var
> warnings won't be an issue.
>

Yep. When I clean up my probes into a tapset I'll post about it here.


>
> > > OK, working on this bug.
> >
> > Cool. I dug through a fair bit of code without figuring it out, sorry :S
> > Want me to open a github issue?
>
> Nah, already fixed it last night.  (We use sourceware.org/bugzilla.)
>

Wow, thanks. Pulling to have a look.



> > [...]
> > I'll be stuck being backward compatible for a while so I had to work
> around
> > it anyway...
>
> Fair enough.  When we release a new version, we do plop it onto as
> many old platform versions as we can.  So fedora30 etc. should get it,
> within a few weeks.
>

Very nice!

My work actually runs our own package distribution system now too, so if we
needed to we could even build and ship systemtap.

Which reminds me, I need to tweak our packages to force the installation of
debuginfo.


>
> - FChE
>
>

      reply	other threads:[~2019-11-10  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-28  7:19 Craig Ringer
2019-10-28  8:55 ` Craig Ringer
2019-10-30 20:10 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-10-31 14:01   ` Craig Ringer
2019-11-07 18:52     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-08  4:15       ` Craig Ringer
2019-11-08 12:03         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-10  5:05           ` Craig Ringer [this message]

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