On 13 Apr 2016, at 20:28, hiren panchasara wrote:
> On 04/13/16 at 07:38P, George Neville-Neil wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I've created a new project and organization on githhub for maintaining >> bits of DTrace, including the DTrace Toolkit. I have imported the last >> known version of the toolkit into this repo: >> >> https://github.com/opendtrace/toolkit >> >> I have then applied all the changes made by Rui Paolo, Ed Maste and >> myself within a "freebsd" branch in that repo. >> >> Before 11.0 I intend to remove the toolkit from the FreeBSD repo and >> maintain it separately, along with scripts and versions for the other >> operating systems that support DTrace. I'd like folks to test this >> replacement on FreeBSD. It should be as simple as: >> >> ?> rm /usr/src/cddl/contrib/dtracetoolkit >> ?> git clone https://github.com/opendtrace/toolkit.git >> ?> git checkout -b freebsd >> >> I've tested this locally on my systems but I'd like to hear feedback >> from others before I pull the scripts from our tree. > > Hi George, > > What is the rationale of treating this specially and not like any other > contrib software? IIRC, a few things from toolkit gets installed in > /usr/share/dtrace/toolkit currently which is pretty handy at times. I > was hoping we install more things but it looks like now we'd have to go > get it from a git repo. > It's getting very little (to no) attention in our tree, and I'm now working on a combined set of scripts that are cross platform. Best, George
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