SystemTap: kernel-debuginfo RPM?

[Arjan van de Ven]

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.