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

[FQ Liu]

Thanks for the reply.
What I mean is. Can I use kernel-debuginfo-package (built by me) with
offical kernel.rpm together?

It seems I can't.

2018-05-15 23:32 GMT+08:00 Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org>:

> 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
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