On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:49:53PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Don Zickus <dzickus at 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
