Re: [PATCH lorax] Add fpaste to the installation environment.

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Hi,

I do not think this is such a great idea. While this utility might be small, I do not think we should be adding unnecessary stuff like this into the basic initrd while at the same time trying to reduce memory consumption.

I see two use cases which might happen:

1) Bug reporter will save the bug using our GUI/pyreport/scp and all the logs will go directly into bugzilla. He has no need for fpaste at that moment. And when no error emerges, he would benefit from having smaller image to download and unpack into memory.

2) Developer and the people debugging would usually have no problem with attaching second initrd (using initrd overlay) containing all necessary debugging tools. It might be even included as separate choice in the CD boot menu and we have had it in our Brno PXE targets for years now (it is automatically added, no tedious configuration necessary). The same applies to all debug only utilities like strace, gdbserver, ...

In my point of view, we keep adding stuff like this and then complain about dependencies and the image's size. That is just hypocrisy.

PS:

If you do not require pasting the stuff on a website, we already have bash and it's netcat implementation included. Usage bellow:

cat > /dev/tcp/_hostname_/_port_ < _logfile_

Do not be deceived by the fact that no /dev/tcp exists, bash will understand it. You can then receive it by using:

nc -l _port_

--
Martin SivÃk
msivak@xxxxxxxxxx
Red Hat Czech
Anaconda team / Brno, CZ

----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 02:25:45PM -0400, Chris Lumens wrote:
> > This can be handy when debugging.
> > ---
> >  share/ramdisk.ltmpl | 1 +
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/share/ramdisk.ltmpl b/share/ramdisk.ltmpl
> > index a8da015..3fc95db 100644
> > --- a/share/ramdisk.ltmpl
> > +++ b/share/ramdisk.ltmpl
> > @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ install "fedora-gnome-theme"
> >  install "fedora-icon-theme"
> >  install "firstaidkit-engine"
> >  install "firstboot"
> > +install "fpaste"
> >  install "ftp"
> >  install "gdb-gdbserver"
> >  install "gdk-pixbuf"
> > --
> > 1.7.4.1
> 
> great idea, ack.
> 
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