[elrepo] Fwd: Building debuginfo package for existing offical elrepo kernel

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:49 PM, FQ Liu <qleex001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
>     There are dozens of servers in our production environment, using
> kernel-ml-4.11.5-1.elrepo.x86_64.rpm, Now we want to use systemtap and
> kernel-debuginfo package is required.
>
>     Downloading the kernel-ml-4.11.5-1.el6.elrepo.nosrc.rpm, modifying the
> kernel-4.11.spec file, Then I could build kernel and kernel-debuginfo
> package and works well.
>
>     Now the problem is that I don't want to reinstall the kernel for all the
> machines, Is there any way to build the debuginfo package for the offical
> elrepo kernel, than I could just install the kernel-debuginfo package
> without reinstall the kernel for the machines in production environment.

We, at ELRepo, have no plan to build debuginfo for kernel-ml/lt for
various reasons (resources for one). These kernels are fast-moving
targets and we provide them for hardware testing purposes.

What I meant by shortage in resources include additional build time
on our buildsystems and also burden on the mirror network which we try
to keep under 10GB. Kernel packages are very large, and debuginfo
packages are much larger.

Sorry that we cannot provide a more positive answer.

Akemi