On 30/10/2014 02:32, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 03:15:50PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: >> On 29 October 2014 12:49, Steven Hartland <killing_at_multiplay.co.uk> wrote: >>> Hmm not sure I like this idea as it would make it more difficult to make a >>> copy / backup a kernel. >>> >>> ATM when I want to copy a kernel for debugging its a one liner, splitting >>> debug symbols off to /usr/lib would prevent this. >> To retain the current behaviour you can set DEBUGDIR= (i.e., empty), >> as the debug file install path is ${DESTDIR}${DEBUGDIR}${KODIR}. > No, you can't. > > su root > cp -pR /boot/kernel /boot/good > > Where does DEBUGDIR enter the picture? The above will copy > both kernel and kernel.symbol to /boot/good. With your scheme > one loses kernel.symbol (along with all other *.symbol files?). > If one escapes to the boot prompt, she can do 'boot /boot/good/kernel', > will the boot process automatically find a (nonexistant?) > /usr/lib/boot/good/kernel.symbol. Indeed, if my understanding of this proposal is correct it will make working with multiple kernels much harder. Making things harder to manage vs saving a little bit of space on the root partition really doesn't sound like a good idea; especially when with the ZFS install, which I would suggest is becoming the norm, the root partition doesn't suffer from space issues anyway.Received on Thu Oct 30 2014 - 01:52:13 UTC
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