[DTrace-devel] [PATCH] Update README.md for RPM info

[Kris Van Hees]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 03:05:14PM -0500, eugene.loh--- via DTrace-devel wrote:
> From: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
> ---
>  README.md | 19 +++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
> index b54189b1d..3abd8a367 100644
> --- a/README.md
> +++ b/README.md
> @@ -9,21 +9,28 @@ community.
>  
>  The main development branch is [devel](https://github.com/oracle/dtrace-utils/tree/devel).
>  
> -We provide prebuilt x86_64 and aarch64 DTrace userspace packages for Oracle
> -Linux 9 (UEK7 kernel), Oracle Linux 8 (UEK7 or UEK6 kernel), and Oracle Linux 7
> -(UEK6 kernel).  These packages are based on the Oracle Linux specific release
> -branch [2.0-branch](https://github.com/oracle/dtrace-utils/tree/2.0-branch).
> +We provide prebuilt x86_64 and aarch64 DTrace userspace packages for
> +Oracle Linux 10 (UEK8 kernel),
> +Oracle Linux 9 (UEK8 or UEK7 kernel),
> +Oracle Linux 8 (UEK7 or UEK6 kernel),
> +and Oracle Linux 7 (UEK6 kernel).
> +These packages are based on the Oracle Linux specific release
> +branch [stable](https://github.com/oracle/dtrace-utils/tree/stable).

This is not correct.  The 'stable' branch is not Oracle Linux specific - it is
merely the branch that is up to date with the latest released version of
DTrace.

At this point, the changes that are specific to Oracle Linux are primarily
build system related and a single case of needing to deal with a discrepancy
between the UEK kernel vs upstream kernel as a result of some patches that
were backported.  I think that just mentioning which RPMs we build and provide
is sufficient here.

>  The latest packages can be obtained from the following
>  [Oracle Linux yum server](https://yum.oracle.com) repositories: 
> +- Oracle Linux 10 (x86_64) UEK Release 8: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL10/UEKR8/x86_64/
> +- Oracle Linux 10 (aarch64) UEK Release 8: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL10/UEKR8/aarch64/
> +- Oracle Linux 9 (x86_64) UEK Release 8: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL9/UEKR8/x86_64/
> +- Oracle Linux 9 (aarch64) UEK Release 8: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL9/UEKR8/aarch64/
>  - Oracle Linux 9 (x86_64) UEK Release 7: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL9/UEKR7/x86_64/
>  - Oracle Linux 9 (aarch64) BaseOS Latest: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL9/baseos/latest/aarch64/
>  - Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64) UEK Release 7: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/UEKR7/x86_64/
>  - Oracle Linux 8 (aarch64) UEK Release 7: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/UEKR7/aarch64/
>  - Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64) UEK Release 6: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/UEKR6/x86_64/
>  - Oracle Linux 8 (aarch64) BaseOS Latest: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/baseos/latest/aarch64/
> -- Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64) UEK Release 6: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/UEKR6/x86_64/
> -- Oracle Linux 7 (aarch64) UEK Release 6: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/UEKR6/aarch64/
> +- Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64) UEK Release 6: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/UEKR6/x86_64/ (up to dtrace-2.0.1-1)
> +- Oracle Linux 7 (aarch64) UEK Release 6: https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/UEKR6/aarch64/ (up to dtrace-2.0.1-1)

I would separate these last 2 lines from the others and put a line before them
pointing out that we provide RPMs up to 2.0.1-1, and that building for OL7 has
been deprecated.

>  Source code for the UEK kernel is available on github in the
>  [linux-uek repo](https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek).
> -- 
> 2.47.3
> 
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