Features/Darkserver

Darkserver GNU Build ID service

Summary

Darkserver is a service written to help people finding details of build-id(s). People will be able query the service based on build-id(s) or rpm package names. The service will provide output in JSON format as it will be easier for other tools to parse the output. This service will be integrated with the Fedora infrastructure and includes a web interface and koji plugin.

Owner

• Name: Kushal Das
• Name: Rahul Sundaram

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 17 (and its Feature List)
• Last updated: 2012-03-19
• Percentage of completion: 95%

We have a staging instance, only thing left is a production instance in Fedora infrastucture.

Detailed Description

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Darkserver

Benefit to Fedora

To enable developer tools to identify exact package builds from which process images (e.g. core dumps) come. This can enable their analysis, debugging profiling, by finding out where the rpm / elf / dwarf files may be found, so they can download them. (This is even better than abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache because that apparently cannot query files no longer indexed by repodata.)

How To Test

Devel instance URL: http://darkserver01.dev.fedoraproject.org/darkserver/

User Experience

This is a developer service and won't affect end users except in a indirect way by improving the use of tools.

Dependencies

Infrastructure team needs to host the service. Kevin Fenzi is working with Kushal Das on this already.

Contingency Plan

The service simply won't exist.

Documentation

Darkserver, is a Fedora service to help people finding details of build-id(s). People will be able query the service based on build-id(s) or rpm package names. The service will provide output in JSON format as it will be easier for other tools to parse the output. This release includes all the tools to make use of this service.