RE: SystemTap: kernel-debuginfo RPM?

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 11:41 -0300, Shaw, Marco wrote:
>  > > > > Where can kernel-debuginfo be found?
> > > >
> > > > some ftp location; it should be documented in the U2 release notes
> > >
> > >   Find for "debuginfo" in U2 release notes did not reveal 
> > anything. :)
> > 
> > Try this from redhat.com or other mirrors.
> > http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/i386
> > /Debuginfo/
> 
> The above is a pre-U2 kernel (dunno from when exactly).
> 
> Howard Johnson recently posted:
> "Debuginfo for the 22.EL kernel is under the updates tree. eg.
> http://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4AS/en/os/Debuginfo/i386/RPMS/";
> 
> I don't know this kernel package well, but it doesn't seem to contain
> a compiled kernel...
> 
> Should it?  Am I missing something here?

It is my understanding that the -debuginfo RPMs build on top of an
already-installed kernel.  You install the -debuginfo RPM and it
provides debug symbols for the standard kernel RPM you already have
installed.

/Brian/

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