Re: Where is tracer

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/03/18 11:37, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>  So I decided to look into tracer.
>
>  When I did my system build I did a 'dnf list > dnf.lst' to get a listing of
> all
>  rpms in the repos (at least at that point it time). I have found this an easy way
>  to go look for things of interest.  So I did:
>
>  # grep tracer dnf.lst
>  traceroute.x86_64 3:2.1.0-6.fc28                  @fedora
>  accumulo-tracer.noarch 1.8.1-9.fc28                    fedora
>  dnstracer.x86_64 1.9-19.fc28                     fedora
>  golang-github-rubyist-tracerx-devel.noarch
>  paris-traceroute.x86_64 0.92-13.fc28                    fedora
>  python2-dnf-plugin-tracer.noarch 2.0.5-3.fc28                    fedora
>  python2-tracer.noarch 0.7.0-1.fc28                    updates
>  python3-dnf-plugin-tracer.noarch 2.0.5-3.fc28                    fedora
>  python3-tracer.noarch 0.7.0-1.fc28                    updates
>  tracer-common.noarch 0.7.0-1.fc28                    updates
>
>  There is a python2 and 3 tracer.  Which one to use on F28?  What is the difference
>  between the command line tracer and the dnf plugin?  
python3-tracer is the one that will get installed if you type "dnf install
tracer" on
an F28 system.

Functionally, there is no difference between the command line and the plugin.  The
difference is that the plugin will be run automatically after dnf transactions which
make changes to the system.

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