Bug#365349: Add support for creating a "debuginfo" package
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.
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dann frazier
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