replacement of cddl/contrib/opendtrace with the OpenDTrace version

[George Neville-Neil]

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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