Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-17 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:21:50AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: 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)

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-16 Thread Bastian Blank
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)

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-16 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Hi - On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:21:50AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: [...] 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

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-15 Thread John Wright
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

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-15 Thread John Wright
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

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:45:23AM -0600, John Wright wrote: install-image_$(ARCH)_$(FEATURESET)_$(FLAVOUR)_plain: This is not the correct target. + +$(MAKE_CLEAN) -C $(DIR) modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH='$(CURDIR)'/$(PACKAGE_DIR) INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 + +$(MAKE_CLEAN) -C $(DIR)

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-15 Thread dann frazier
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

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-15 Thread John Wright
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: install-image_$(ARCH)_$(FEATURESET)_$(FLAVOUR)_plain: This is not the correct target. Can you elaborate? Do you mean it should go in its own target? +

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
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?

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-14 Thread dann frazier
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

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:45:29AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: 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. Are you able to outline the

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 14/07/09 at 20:56 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: In addition to systemtap, it should also make it easier to get crash to work on released kernel images. systemtap is AFAIK a different problem. Can you elaborate? The requirements for systemtap on the kernel side are: CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO,

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-14 Thread Troy Heber
On 07/14/09 15:39, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 14/07/09 at 20:56 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: In addition to systemtap, it should also make it easier to get crash to work on released kernel images. systemtap is AFAIK a different problem. Can you elaborate? The requirements for

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-14 Thread maximilian attems
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

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2009-07-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, 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? It kind of hurts to hear people saying systemtap works on every major distro -- just install the

Bug#365349: Add support for creating a debuginfo package

2006-04-29 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Package: kernel-package Version: 10.036 Severity: wishlist As support for kexec/kdump support becomes more real, it will be very useful to be able to build kernels that have debugging information available, but not necessarily to install the debugging information on every single client system.