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package linux-tools for zabbly kernel? #2

Open mtippmann opened 1 year ago

mtippmann commented 1 year ago

thanks for creating this!

I have a minor suggestion: tools like cpupower and x86_energy_performance are packaged in ubuntu in kernel-specific packages linux-tools-<kernel-variant>-<version> - would be great if the corresponding packages would also exist for zabbly kernel.

stgraber commented 1 year ago

The packages come from the mkdebian script that's part of the mainline Linux kernel. That logic doesn't not currently generate packages for some of those tools that are provided within the kernel tree.

I think it could be interesting to have those, but rather than have the Zabbly packaging add a bunch of packaging logic on top of what's provided by the kernel tree, this should probably be contributed directly to mkdebian in the upstream tree.

3v1n0 commented 11 months ago

Oh, I was trying to get perf working in latest kernels, but that's somewhat a missing piece. Any way to get this?

mtippmann commented 11 months ago

Oh, I was trying to get perf working in latest kernels, but that's somewhat a missing piece. Any way to get this?

my workaround is just setting symlinks and install latest tools - for most use cases they don't need a hard dependency on the kernel 

user@machine:/usr/lib/linux-tools$ ls -al
insgesamt 28
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root   7 Nov 22 06:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 116 root root 200 Nov 22 06:39 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   3 Nov 22 06:39 5.15.0-88-generic
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  11 Nov 22 06:36 5.15.0-89-generic
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  18 Nov  4 01:57 6.5.6-zabbly+ -> 5.15.0-88-generic/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  18 Nov  4 01:58 6.5.8-zabbly+ -> 5.15.0-88-generic/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  18 Nov  4 01:58 6.5.9-zabbly+ -> 5.15.0-88-generic/

I failed at my last attempt to refresh the links on every upgrade but with enough dpkg foo this should be possible.

stgraber commented 11 months ago

Yeah, I still think the best option will be to introduce a new binary package to the kernel build, similar to how linux-libc-dev is handled. It shouldn't be too difficult to do, though not having it conflict with how Debian and Ubuntu do things may be slightly more challenging (as the kernel packaging logic is mostly distro agnostic).