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

[Akemi Yagi]

You are right. The debuginfo package from a different build would not
match. I'm afraid you'd have to build and install your own kernel.

Akemi

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 7:40 PM, FQ Liu <qleex001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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