Re: Comment requested on {bugzilla-information-gatherer.sh} script

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

David Timms wrote:

> Having searched for and created numerous bugzilla fedora bugs, I have 
> never seen reference to sysreport before. What would be the reasoning 
> behind this ? 

It is usually used only in RHEL. No reason for that other than lack of 
awareness.

The information found would apply just as equally to fedora ?

Yes

> I can see that it is actually already installed on my fc6 system. Is it 
> normal to take about 8 minutes to run ?

Yes

> It looks like it does a full rpm -Va - this must be what takes the most 
> time. I see a parameter -norpm; perhaps this could be added/modified to 
> -norpmverify ?

Could be. Also see a next generation version of it in

https://sos.108.redhat.com/. This is also available in the repository. I 
think sysreport might be replaced by sos at some point. Talk to the 
maintainers involved before you make any significant improvements.

Rahul