kdb installation

[kaos at sgi.com (Keith Owens)]

On Mon, 30 May 2005 21:31:58 +0530, 
Vasu S <vasu.ss at gmail.com> wrote:
>I am using fedora 2.6.5 kernel. I tried to install kdb by applying the
>patches on the oss.cgi.com but could not do it.

RedHat do not want kdb, so SGI has no interest in supporting kdb on
RedHat distributions.

>As there is no support for gdb on fedora distribution, I am thinking
>of building a custom kernel with kdb support from 2.6.5 vanilla
>sources available at kernel.org. I want to run this kernel on my
>fedora box. Will running a vanilla kernel on a fedora box cause any
>problems?

None at all.  Since you are building your own kernel, use the latest
vanilla kernel (2.6.12-rc5) and the corresponding kdb patches.  That
kernel+kdb combination works fine with the user space packages from
FC3.

To stop up2date trying to replace your custom kernel, set this line
in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date.

pkgSkipList=kernel;

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