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authorChris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>2020-03-03 03:35:06 -0800
committerChris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>2020-03-03 05:06:06 -0800
commitdedbdacf275cb7871c7336bd7a27ceb609b15113 (patch)
treec3081d561cd26205b435726e242aea1866808335 /gnu/packages/linux.scm
parentdadd5cba2e46067329770e915a02d390a4937dc8 (diff)
gnu: Add kexec-tools.
* gnu/packages/linux.scm (kexec-tools): New variable. Co-authored-by: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index 0289047d27..5f2d37deda 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2019 Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net>
;;; Copyright © 2020 Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2020 Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
+;;; Copyright © 2020 Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -6408,3 +6409,26 @@ user space tracer. It receives commands from a session daemon, for example to
enable and disable specific instrumentation points, and writes event records
to ring buffers shared with a consumer daemon.")
(license license:lgpl2.1+)))
+
+(define-public kexec-tools
+ (package
+ (name "kexec-tools")
+ (version "2.0.20")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "mirror://kernel.org/linux/utils/kernel"
+ "/kexec/kexec-tools-" version ".tar.xz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "1j7qlhxk1rbv9jbj8wd6hb7zl8p2mp29ymrmccgmsi0m0dzhgn6s"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (arguments
+ ;; There are no automated tests.
+ '(#:tests? #f))
+ (home-page "https://projects.horms.net/projects/kexec/")
+ (synopsis "Tools for booting directly into different kernels")
+ (description "This package provides the @code{kexec} program and ancillary
+utilities. Using @code{kexec}, it is possible to boot directly into a new
+kernel from the context of an already-running kernel, bypassing the normal
+system boot process.")
+ (license license:gpl2)))