cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC src/sys/alpha/confGENERIC src/sys/sparc64/conf GENERIC src/sys/amd64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Mon Dec 8 19:34:38 PST 2003


David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:17:02AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
>>Yeah, that's a good idea.  GNATS is full of PRs with panic strings but
>>no tracebacks, and it can be time-consuming and difficult to get
>>people to obtain them post-facto.  If we ship a kernel.debug with the
>>release then we can explain in the release documentation how to use it
>>to submit a useful PR.
> 
> 
> The problem is release/Makefile isn't smart enough to not put the debug
> kernels in the ISO's /boot.  Thus ISO's are much larger and there is less
> package space.
>  

Fixing this sounds like a good task for 5.3.  Hacking the release
scripts is generally risky and is not something that I'm eager to do
right before the final release builds.  Are there any volunteer for
doing this in HEAD?

Scott



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