Bug#703280: linux: please include extract-vmlinux script in some binary package

[Bob Bib <bobbibmpn@mail.ru>]

Sun, 17 Mar 2013, 16:32 -07:00 from Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> Bob Bib wrote:
> 
> > please include 'extract-vmlinux' script:
> <linux_src_tree_root>/scripts/extract-vmlinux
> > in some Linux-related binary package;
> > it allows extraction of a plain vmlinux from a compressed Linux kernel
> image,
> > in an easy way.
> 
> What do you use it for?
> 
> Curious,
> Jonathan

Hi Jonathan,

last time I used 'extract-vmlinux' for unpacking an Ubuntu kernel image
to get the upstream base sources version from it
(Ubuntu kernel images have some custom version numbers;
on running system, they even produce 2 files: '/proc/version' & '/proc/version_signature').

It's easy to get 'extract-vmlinux' from kernel.org,
but nevertheless, it would be handy for some people
to have it installed automatically as part of some Debian package :)


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Best wishes, Bob