RFC: Support for separate debug info files
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Wed Jun 11 14:15:00 GMT 2003
Hi Daniel,
>> > My theory is that the only benefit gained by being able to ship a
>> > stripped debuginfo file as opposed to an unstripped one is that it
>> > reduces the shipping size, making a distribution smaller. I am
>> > assuming that hard disk space is not really an issue, just the size
>> > of the shipped binaries.
>>
>> I think the idea is to omit the debug info files altogether from the
>> distribution. It'll make the debug info packages take longer to
>> download, but it's not a show-stopper, I think.
>
> For me it probably is a show-stopper - the issue is not download time
> or disk space, but CD size. Duplicating all the binaries we want to
> provide debug info for would probably push us over the edge. It could
> be done separately though! This will at least let us test it...
Plus you could ship the debug info CD separately. Maybe at additional
cost to the customer, or after a delay, so that the time-to-market for
a new release is reduced ?
Cheers
Nick
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