Kernel symbol file alternate location

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Daniel O'Connor on Thursday, 05 August 2010:
> Is it possible to tell installkernel to put the symbol files elsewhere?
> 
> IMO somewhere in /usr would be good - you don't need them to boot (or crashdump, etc) and they increase the size of the kernel by a factor of 5(!), eg..
> [cain 14:07] /tmp >du -sh kernel
> 258M    kernel
> [cain 14:07] /tmp >rm -f kernel/*.symbols
> [cain 14:07] /tmp >du -sh kernel         
>  50M    kernel
> 
> One downside is that you need to keep them in sync which is a bit of a drag, however I think most people use installworld for upgrades/builds so it would generally not be an issue.
> 
> I think this is the main reason / has had to grow - the actual kernel is relatively small so even a 256Mb / could hold several, but with the symbol files it is not possible.
> 
> I don't have patches to do this though :)
> 
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+1 to this idea.  I'm currently building without symbols so I don't have
to clean them out of kernel.old every time I do an installkernel.

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