Rawhide kernel debuginfo size more than doubled!

[Jarod Wilson]

On Monday 31 March 2008 01:17:59 pm Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 31 March 2008 03:00:00 am Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Updating my rawhide box, I found:
> >
> > kernel-debuginfo i686 2.6.25-0.172.rc7.git4.fc9 rawhide-debuginfo 47 k
> > kernel-debuginfo-common i686 2.6.25-0.172.rc7.git4.fc9 rawhide-debuginfo
> > 486 M
> >
> > - Did anything in the F9 builds change that lead to this more than
> > two-fold increase in the debuginfo size?
> > - Or is it that the "common" rpm needs updation once every kernel
> > release with just "updates" for every update to the same release
> > thereafter?
>
> There's a problem with some of the changes I made to add arch to our uname
> -r output screwing with debuginfo a bit. The size isn't double though.
>
> Before
> ------
> kernel-debuginfo: ~198M
> kernel-debuginfo-common: ~32M
>
> Now
> ---
> kernel-debuginfo: 47k
> kernel-debuginfo-common: 230M
>
> So same size overall, I just haven't got all the bits getting into the
> right sub-packages. Working on fixing that now.

Got a fix committed to kernel-2.6.25-0.178.rc7.git6.fc9.

This gets us back to:
199M kernel-debuginfo.x86_64: 199M
kernel-debuginfo-common.x86_64: 31M

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com