kernel debuginfo size

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:09:28PM +0200, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
 > Err... would it be possible to get some solution for the "Help!
 > I just want to run oprofile and systemtap" scenario?
 > 
 > -rw-rw-r--    1 ftp      ftp      459625793 Mar 02 09:20 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.15-1.2008_FC5.i686.rpm
 > 
 > is just not fun. Especially when a (uncompressed) 40MB vmlinux is all I
 > usually want from there.

It's due to there being 3 different kernel builds in there
(up/smp/kdump)

Tomorrows is bigger again -- readdition of Xen adds another two kernels.

Eventually, I'm hopeful that the kdump image can go away, but we're kinda
stuck with the others right now.

		Dave