plan.txt

plan.txt (text/plain), 1.07 KB, created by Chris White (RETIRED) on 2005-08-12 00:09:28 UTC

I. Debugging Howto
	A. Introduction
		1) What is debugging?
		2) What are bugs?
	B. GDB
		1) Preparing to debug
		2) Running the program with gdb
		3) Getting the backtrace
	C. Valgrind
		1) Preparing to debug cross reference
		2) running with valgrind and logging
	D. strace
		1) What is strace?
		2) Using strace to track the issue
	E. Kernel debugging with dmesg
		1) What is dmesg?
		2) Finding the issue with dmesg
	F. Compile Errors
		1) Examples of emerge errors
		2) Emerge with PORT_LOGDIR
	G. Testing ebuilds
		1) Ebuilds and files/ directory files
		2) Portage overlay
		3) Preparing the files and testing
	H. Testing Patches
		1) How patchlevels work
		2) Doing a dry run to test patches
		3) Patching the files
		4) Reverting patches

II. Bugzilla Howto
	A. Introduction
		1) What are bugs?
		2) The bugzilla homepage
	B. Searching for bugs
		1) Getting the information ready
		2) Dealing with the results
	C. Reporting Bugs
		1) Where to file
		2) Submitting the Information
	D. Working with your bug
		1) What is assignment?
		2) Attaching files
		3) Adding CC's
		4) Bug Resolution