debuginfo & ppc.

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Jan 24 04:41:26 UTC 2008


So I got wondering why PowerPC debuginfos are so much bigger than x86.

-rw-rw-r-- 1 davej davej 30739918 2007-12-11 20:58 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.24-0.56.rc3.git3.fc9.i686.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 davej davej 82997941 2007-12-11 21:02 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.24-0.56.rc3.git3.fc9.ppc64.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 davej davej 70527491 2007-12-11 21:08 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.24-0.56.rc3.git3.fc9.ppc.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 davej davej 29881807 2007-12-11 21:06 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.24-0.56.rc3.git3.fc9.x86_64.rpm

I browsed a few of the internals, and it looks like the ppc variant includes a complete source tree
in /usr/src/debug

Any reason for ppc being different?

	Dave

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