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

[dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>]

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?

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