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[Alfred Perlstein]

* David O'Brien <obrien at freebsd.org> [031208 15:14] 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.

(apologies in advance for what's an obvious, "it'd nice if someone..")

I know it's extra work (I replied to scottl in private about my
reservations about this decision (to avoid extra chatter)), but if
one of re@ could find it in his heart and schedule, it would be
doing everyone a big service to support us shipping a stripped
debug kernel.

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