Re: [PATCH] rootfs_ipk, image: Add debug capture support

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 4/25/13 6:12 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 12:38 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 12:15 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 12:12 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>> Hasn't Paul added a general mechanism for doing this so we could add
>>>> this feature a level higher so that it could be used by all packaging
>>>> formats?
>>>
>>> Ah, possibly.  I'll have a look.  Can you give me a pointer to the
>>> mechanism you were thinking of?
>>
>> Something like IMAGE_FEATURES += "dbg-pkgs" should trigger the addition
>> of dbg packages.
>
> I've somewhat belatedly gotten around to using this and encountered a
> couple of issuettes:
>
> 1. There was a spurious-looking RRECOMMENDS_${PN}-dbg in bitbake.conf
> which was causing ${PN} to be dragged into the image whenever ${PN}-dbg
> was installed.  This is undesirable because it means that, for example,
> any image which includes sysvinit-pidof will end up installing sysvinit
> and this might cause quite drastic changes to the behaviour of the
> resulting image.
>
> 2. Having fixed the above I'm now left with a couple of file conflicts
> in the -dbg packages.  For example, sysvinit and util-linux both
> ship /sbin/sulogin and so sysvinit-dbg and util-linux-dbg both want to
> install /sbin/.debug/sulogin.  This is unfortunate if you have an image
> which uses, say, sysvinit-pidof and util-linux-blkid.

Is this a problem that they should have used the update-alternatives for 
sulogin?  (Sounds like it might be a security issue though...)  This would avoid 
the .debug conflict.

--Mark

> I'm not quite sure what the right way to fix (2) is.  I suppose in an
> ideal world the -dbg packages would be separated in the same way the
> parent binary packages are, but that doesn't look entirely
> straightforward to arrange.
>
> p.
>
>
>
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