git: 5f946c76c0cc - main - Update WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS description

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Sun Sep 12 15:57:34 UTC 2021


> On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 at 09:39, Rodney W. Grimes
> <freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> >
> > This option is recommended for those people who have small /usr partitions.
> 
> That doesn't seem particularly valuable; there is so much else in
> /usr. There are other options that have a much larger impact on the
> installed size in /usr.

The single largest thing that goes into a default install in the
/usrodata set IS the kernel debug symbols.  Isn't that what this
is controlling?

Note that these symbols are nearly 50% the size of the whole base
system:
	
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  188782444 Apr  9 07:23 base.txz
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   90131212 Apr  9 07:23 kernel-dbg.txz



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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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