Re: [gentoo-dev] stripping implementation in portage

[Olivier Crete <tester@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 2005-23-08 at 12:40 -0500, Brian Harring wrote:
> First, sidenote (mild ot to this thread also), pardon the dupe posts, 
> thick fingered typing dumping an old message :)
> 
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:34:33PM -0400, Olivier Crete wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-23-08 at 11:16 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > > As an aside to this. Does anyone know how debug information can be changed 
> > > to have a different basedir. My idea was to create a "custom" strip 
> > > wrapper that would create external debugging files (like now possible 
> > > with gdb/binutils) and point them to a location 
> > > in /usr/src/packagenameplusversion. For that it would be necessary to in 
> > > some way hack the source location in the debug information.
> > 
> > There is already a patch [1] in bugzilla that does that.. And in bonus
> > to keeping the debug files (currently in <libpath>/.debug/libname.so.dbg
> > but that can be changed) . It can also keep the source files
> > in /usr/src/debug so they can loaded by gdb (pretty useful when
> > debugging into libraries). 
> > 
> > It creates 3 new features, keepdebug, keepdebugbin and keepsources
> Would rather implement those as filters as described above; short 
> version is that features is chunked up in the rewrite, so it's options 
> on the component you're configuring moreso.  That said, still will map 
> from old make.* to new format (on the fly, no forced config upgrades), 
> but I'd rather see it implemented as I've proposed.
> 
> Reasoning is that if you build with debugging crap on, you've got 
> maximal flexibility in your choice of what your binpkgs/vdb winds up 
> with.
> 
> Thoughts/yay/nays?

I havent looked at your new implementation (does it exist).. but yea
what you wrote seems to make sense... except that I keep the source code
too.. so it would bloat binary packages.. I think it should be done
before the packages are made.. or maybe use separate debug and have
separate debug packages like RedHat does.

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Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer
x86 Security Liaison


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