linux-image-debug

[Stéphane Graber]

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Tim Gardner wrote:
> Stéphane Graber wrote:
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>> Tim Gardner wrote:
>>> Colin,
>>>
>>> I need an archive wizard. While attempting to restore the construction
>>> of linux-image-debug-{generic,server} in Jaunty, I discovered that these
>>> debug packages are already being built, but only on the buildd's (which
>>> is a good thing because they are ginormous). In the attached snippet
>>> from debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk, I'm a bit confused about the code
>>> starting after the "Hokay" comment. I assume renaming the package to
>>> *.ddeb serves some special purpose? What effect does removing the
>>> package name from debian/files have? Where do the .ddeb packages
>>> ultimately end up?
>>>
>>> rtg
>>>
>> .ddeb are the debug packages, they usually contain the debug symbols.
>> Once built, they're uploaded on http://ddebs.ubuntu.com.
>>
> 
> Is there a better way then wget to retrieve debug packages? The reason 
> I ask is that I think the meta package linux-crashdump should be 
> dependent on not only kexec-tools and makedumpfile, but also crash and 
> linux-image-debug-{generic,server}. Otherwise, why bother? kexec-tools 
> and makedumpfile are of little use without crash and the debug bits.
> 
> rtg

http://ddebs.ubuntu.com can be used as a repository and added to your
sources.list. I don't know if there is an easy way for the user to do so
through the usual UIs though.

Depending on a package from ddebs will in most cases fail as the user
won't have the repository but recommending it should be fine as the
package will only be installed if the user actually has the ddeb repository.

I guess that you could probably make an exception and get these packages
as .deb instead of .ddeb directly in the main archive so you can depend
on them, but I'm not really the right one to answer that point :)

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Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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