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RE: SystemTap: kernel-debuginfo RPM?
- From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan at infradead dot org>
- To: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (Nahant) Discussion List" <nahant-list at redhat dot com>
- Cc: SystemTAP <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:42:49 +0200
- Subject: RE: SystemTap: kernel-debuginfo RPM?
- References: <A8A1C0013B2F944582B8C8BA66B7B27803F6842C@nbexmb02.aliant.icn>
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 08:41 -0300, Shaw, Marco wrote:
> > Debuginfo for the 22.EL kernel is under the updates tree. eg.
> > http://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4AS/en/os/Debuginfo/i386/RPMS/
>
> Hmmm... I've looked through the package. Is there supposed to be
> a special compiled kernel with debug info built-in?
no; it's the debuginfo strip-to-file'd. gdb and co know how to assemble
external debuginfo during work. the debuginfo rpms (not just the kernel
ones but all of them) are only the *extra* debuginfo, not the original
binaries. You can ONLY use them together with the full normal rpm.