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



On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:31:49PM -0600, John Wright wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 08:36:27PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:45:23AM -0600, John Wright wrote:
> > > +	+$(MAKE_CLEAN) -C $(DIR) modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH='$(CURDIR)'/$(PACKAGE_DIR) INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1
> > > +	+$(MAKE_CLEAN) -C $(DIR) modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH='$(CURDIR)'/$(DEBUG_DIR)
> > 
> > How about only installing debugging infos in the debugging package?
> 
> THis would be ideal.  Current tools like "crash" don't work with an
> image that's been stripped with "--only-keep-debug".  I'm not sure what
> strip is removing that crash needs, but I'll look into it.

This will not work on x86 because the bootable image is no elf file.

> Stripping the modules themselves with "--only-keep-debug" seems to work
> with crash, but then it saves only a marginal amount of space (from 963
> MB down to 926 MB on a 2.6.29 kernel).

Äh. What is the size of the resulting packages?

Bastianä

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