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Date:      Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:11:04 +0200
From:      Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped /kernel ?]
Message-ID:  <843590857.20041020231104@andric.com>
In-Reply-To: <4176C0C8.4060408@freebsd.org>
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On 2004-10-20 at 21:47:20 Scott Long wrote:

> I tend to agree.  What do you think of my proposal to have installkernel
> (optionally or whatever) put unstriped binaries somewhere outside of the
> root partition?

Yes, that is a very nice solution, although you also might say that
having "two versions" of the same kernel file could be confusing
(and/or wasteful).  Also, please note that you might want debug
versions of all kernel modules in the same place, since those can
cause crashes too, alas.

May I suggest /var/crash as a possible location? :)  Since you'll be
looking in there anyway if you need to debug a crash dump.

(On the other hand, I've been installing debug kernels for the past
year or so, always using make installkernel.debug, and then renaming
all /boot/kernel/*.debug files to their basenames, but this is rather
cumbersome.  However, you always have all debugging info in one
place.)

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