On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> But I just had another variant of this idea: could the string "debug" be >> embedded in the release string of the kernel? (and wire this up in the >> specfile so that it's automatically added) >> >> so e.g. >> kernel-3.3.0-0.rc3.git6.2.fc18 >> would become: >> kernel-3.3.0-0.rc3.git6.2.debug.fc18 >> or >> kernel-3.3.0-0.rc3.git6.2.fc18.debug >> >> That way it'd show up everywhere e.g. in uname -a, in >> gnome-system-monitor, on logon, etc, and make it obvious that the debug >> code is enabled. >> >> Not sure if this is a good idea or not > > We actually already do this. Sort of. > > When we're building release kernels, we actually build kernel and kernel-debug > packages. The kernel package has the normal uname and kernel-debug has the > EXTRARELEASE set to the flavor being built (either nothing, PAE, debug, or > PAEdebug). So if you install and boot kernel-debug, your uname will look like: > > 3.2.3-2.fc16.i686.debug or 3.2.3-2.fc16.i686.PAEdebug > > However, in rawhide (and f17 at the moment) we're building -rcX kernels and we > tend to leave the debug options always on. That means the kernel package has > the options enabled and there is no kernel-debug package being built. Once per > -rc, we flip the switch so we get both. > > Tacking a .debug into EXTRARELEASE for the usual rawhide case might still be a > good idea. I'll look into that tomorrow. FYI, I committed a changed to do thi this morning. It should be in tomorrow's rawhide and whatever kernel we submit for F17 next. Thanks again for the idea. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
