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Quoth Daniel O'Connor on Thursday, 05 August 2010:
> Is it possible to tell installkernel to put the symbol files elsewhere?
>=20
> IMO somewhere in /usr would be good - you don't need them to boot (or cra=
shdump, etc) and they increase the size of the kernel by a factor of 5(!), =
eg..
> [cain 14:07] /tmp >du -sh kernel
> 258M kernel
> [cain 14:07] /tmp >rm -f kernel/*.symbols
> [cain 14:07] /tmp >du -sh kernel =20
> 50M kernel
>=20
> One downside is that you need to keep them in sync which is a bit of a dr=
ag, however I think most people use installworld for upgrades/builds so it =
would generally not be an issue.
>=20
> I think this is the main reason / has had to grow - the actual kernel is =
relatively small so even a 256Mb / could hold several, but with the symbol =
files it is not possible.
>=20
> I don't have patches to do this though :)
>=20
> --
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
> -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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>=20
+1 to this idea. I'm currently building without symbols so I don't have
to clean them out of kernel.old every time I do an installkernel.
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