On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:45:23AM -0600, John Wright wrote: > tags 365349 + patch > thanks > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:45:29AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:02:52PM -0400, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > On 14/07/09 at 09:47 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > > > On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > > > > > > > What's the status on the addition of a "debuginfo" package in addition > > > > > to linux-image-*? Is it just waiting on someone to do the work, and is > > > > > it something that needs to be discussed first? > > > > > > > > yep, nobody dedicated time yet to linux-debug flavour. > > > > a good start would be x86 only. > > > > > > Why do you see this as a new flavor? Wouldn't it be better to have it > > > based on the standard flavor, splitting off the debug info after the > > > build? > > > > > > If I remember correctly, enabling such options has no performance impact > > > (and other distros are doing it too). > > > > fwiw, I'd like to see these too. Coworkers of mine have patches to do > > this within kernel-package but, by the time we got the k-p maintainer > > to serious look at them, linux-2.6 was migrating away from k-p. > > > > In addition to systemtap, it should also make it easier to get crash > > to work on released kernel images. > > I'm attaching a patch to linux-2.6 to build a -dbg kernel for each > flavor. > > The first patch just enables CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO and builds the -dbg > packages; the second patch should add the necessary bits for systemtap.
Thanks John. This looks like it includes a second/full set of binaries - is it possible to just scrape the dbg symbols off the binaries into the new files? -- dann frazier | ISS Software -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
