On Wednesday 21 November 2012 09:42 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[email protected]> writes: >> > Do you guys know the reason why it is unavailable on the other ports? > The only reason that I have heard is disk space and build time > limitations. I find it very unfortunate since debugging symbols are > useful not only with systemtap but also with memory dumps (the crash(1) > tool).
That's a trade off that we have lived with. You would remember, we didn't have the debug packages for x86 too. It was introduced recently. Perhaps we should document this in the README.Debian file and point users to the wiki [1] that talks about building the kernel packages the debian way. The wiki walkthrough has a caveat though. The instructed steps will lead to building all flavors of the binary image, effectively leading to a very large and time consuming build. Earlier I used kernel-package to build specific kernel packages, but after debug packages were provided for x86, I stopped tracking it. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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