re: toolchain/55557: Releases should include kernel debug symbols

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

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From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, martin%duskware.de@localhost
Cc: toolchain-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gson%gson.org@localhost (Andreas Gustafsson)
Subject: re: toolchain/55557: Releases should include kernel debug symbols
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 06:15:08 +1000

 thanks Andreas.
 
 we really should have a better solution around this.
 
 Martin Husemann writes:
 > So we need to somehow package the netbsd.gdb files and make them available
 > in the release dir.
 
 the big difference between these netbsd.gdb files and the
 foo.debug files in the debug sets is that netbsd.gdb has
 the full kernel *and* debug info, ie, it's a super set of
 the kernel itself.  for standard installs, we could have
 a normal path and debug-link link from /netbsd to the
 netbsd.debug, but managing those for multiple installs
 sounds difficult (eg, you want netbsd.old to point to the
 netbsd.old.debug you some how created.)
 
 or we could simply eat the space (but it's a lot of you
 have a lot of kernels!)
 
 
 .mrg.