Please generate linux-tools* for mainline builds

TJ ubuntu at iam.tj
Tue Jan 22 17:23:52 UTC 2013


Back in May 2010 Daniel Chen wrote, and Andy Whitcroft replied:

>On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:30:48AM +0200, Daniel Chen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> A number of profiling use cases would be made feasible or streamlined
>> if the linux-tools* packages were generated for the mainline
>> kernel-ppa builds. Please consider generating these binary packages.
>> As I understand it, the chroots would need additional build-deps
>> installed.
>
>I believe that it is build-deps that prevented me building them.  I will
>investigate.
>
>-apw

Has this been forgotten? I note it was on the blueprint for Maverick and then postponed. It is still a blocker
to being able to profile against mainline kernels to diagnose issues.




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