Re: HEADS UP: Standalone kernel debug files moving out of /boot/kernel/

From: Steven Hartland <killing_at_multiplay.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 02:53:55 +0000
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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