Bug#299567: lots o space
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 22:16 -0800, Matt Taggart wrote:
> dann frazier writes...
>
> > fyi, I have a patch to the kernel-image build system that would spit out
> > a separate package w/ a debug kernel image & module set under /usr/lib.
> > I did this in the 2.4.25 timeframe, and I was getting ~204M debug
> > packages per flavor. I don't know how big it would be for just the
> > image (no modules).
>
> dannf, I assume "flavor" means each kernel-image source package and the
> various kernel-image packages it delivers?
Yeah.
> That seems like quite a burden for the archive. I can think of a couple ways
> to handle this,
>
> 1) implement debug packages in the packaging, but don't build them as part of
> the default build target. Put instructions in the source on which rule to use
> to build your own. The oprofile package could refer users to these. This would
> mean each user who wanted them would need to build them which sucks, but this
> is easily implemented.
Not a bad idea - seems like the initial support could go into kernel
package, and we could honor the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug env var.
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dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>
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