Re: why does make-kpkg put vmlinux and vmlinuz in package?

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

From: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu>
> It would be interesting to see if there was a way one could use the
> compressed image for that, though.

Surprise! We don't need psdatabase any longer. From the "ps" man page:

       WCHAN
            Name (if a valid kernel symbol table can be found) or
            address  of  the  kernel  wait channel the process is
            sleeping in.  For the  kernel  symbol  table  libproc
            scans the following files:
                        $PS_SYSTEM_MAP
                        /boot/System.map-`uname -r`
                        /boot/System.map
                        /lib/modules/`uname -r`/System.map
                        /etc/psdatabase
                        /boot/psdatabase-`uname -r`
                        /boot/psdatabase,
                        /lib/modules/`uname -r`/psdatabase
            So  usually  you  don't  have  to use psupdate if you
            install the map link file from the kernel.

So, we can flush the uncompressed kernel and the psdatabase generation
from kernel-package.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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