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

On 30/10/2014 14:40, Ed Maste wrote:
> On 30 October 2014 10:26, Steven Hartland <killing_at_multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
>> Yer that's the process that was in my head, if debug symbols aren't
>> available when savecore runs we're going to need a way to update / rerun
>> when they are available, or even better give it the ability to do the same
>> job with remote symbols?
> Yeah, remote symbol support will be excellent (eventually).
>
> Crashinfo already operates on the most recent dump by default, so the
> solution could be as simple as adding a flag to fetch debug files if
> not already installed. The user would only need to run crashinfo -f to
> regenerate the crash information with debug data available (and we
> could mention that explicitly in the crash report).
>
>>> Setting DEBUGDIR= in /etc/src.conf will retain the current behaviour
>>> of installing the debug data beside the kernel and modules (and
>>> userland binaries and libraries). Does this adequately address your
>>> use case?
>> Yep that works :)
> Great.
>
> I've been pondering this for so long that I may have forgotten not
> everyone has the same context.
>
>> One thing to check would be to ensure that /usr is mounted when savecore
>> runs.
> Indeed, but we're covered there: the crash info is generated by
> /usr/sbin/crashinfo, which relies on /usr/bin/gdb, so it better be
> mounted :)
Fantastic, thanks for taking the time to address my concerns, much 
appreciated :D