Bug 649070

Summary:	Rebase request for crash utility RHEL6.1 errata
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Dave Anderson <anderson>
Component:	crash	Assignee:	Dave Anderson <anderson>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Kernel Dump QE <kernel-dump-qe>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.1	CC:	jjarvis, phan, qcai, riek
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Rebase
Target Release:	6.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	crash-5.1.1-1.el6	Doc Type:	Rebase: Bug Fixes and Enhancements
Doc Text:	The crash packages are used to investigate live systems and kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump, kdump and virsh dump facilities. With this update, Crash has been rebased to upstream version 5.1.1. For a complete list of bug fixes and enhancements, refer to the upstream changelog at http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2011-05-19 13:04:14 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	633449, 637197, 637735, 649050, 649051, 649053

Description Dave Anderson 2010-11-02 21:01:34 UTC

Description of problem:

The RHEL6.1 errata version of crash should be rebased to the current
upstream version of the crash utility.

It is far more efficient, and far safer, to rebase to the upstream 
version than to attempt to selectively backport the patches required for
the current set of bugzillas requested for RHEL6.1.  Furthermore, the new
features and other fixes that have been applied to the upstream version 
make the tool significantly more useful than the current RHEL6 version.

I can confidently state the above primarily because I am the original
author, the upstream maintainer, and the Red Hat maintainer of the crash
utility.

As the upstream maintainer, one of my primary goals is, and always has
been, to maintain backwards-compatibility whenever new fixes or features
are applied.  Therefore the risk of regression is less with a rebase than
it would be with selective backports because the RHEL6.1 bugzilla-requested
fixes are based upon the state of the upstream version. 

It should be noted that nothing goes into the upstream version without
my approval, and my testing.  I perform all my testing on RHEL6 systems,
and test changes against a sample set of RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5, upstream
and Fedora kernel crash dumps.

And lastly, there have been several new debugging features added to the
upstream version that can only serve to aid our support and development
personnel in dealing with customer crashes more efficiently.  Details
regarding recent fixes, features and enhancements can be found in:

  http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

crash-5.0.0-23.el6

The current upstream version is 5.0.9, and typically gets updated
monthly.

How reproducible:


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Comment 2 Dave Anderson 2010-11-03 13:04:50 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
he crash packages are used to investigate live systems and kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump, kdump
and virsh dump facilities.

With this update, Crash has been rebased to upstream version 5.x.x. For a complete list of bug fixes and enhancements, refer to the upstream changelog at http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html

Comment 6 Dave Anderson 2011-01-10 21:25:09 UTC

    Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    Diffed Contents:
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 he crash packages are used to investigate live systems and kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump, kdump
 and virsh dump facilities.
 
-With this update, Crash has been rebased to upstream version 5.x.x. For a complete list of bug fixes and enhancements, refer to the upstream changelog at http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html+With this update, Crash has been rebased to upstream version 5.1.1. For a complete list of bug fixes and enhancements, refer to the upstream changelog at http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html

Comment 8 Han Pingtian 2011-01-11 03:11:01 UTC

    Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    Diffed Contents:
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-he crash packages are used to investigate live systems and kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump, kdump
+The crash packages are used to investigate live systems and kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump, kdump
 and virsh dump facilities.
 
 With this update, Crash has been rebased to upstream version 5.1.1. For a complete list of bug fixes and enhancements, refer to the upstream changelog at http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:04:14 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0561.html