Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2011-Sep-26 19:48:23 -0400, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>> The problem with /boot on a dedicated partition is the the kernel,
>> since at least 8.x, is installed by default with a vast majority of
>> crap. That's all the .symbols, that 99% of FreeBSD users will never
>> uses.
>
>My recollection is that this is because kensmith forgot to take 
>'makeoptions DEBUG=-g' out of GENERIC when branching stable/8, and no one 

Not quite - 'DEBUG=-g' was a deliberate move to make it easier for
developers to talk users through faultfinding kernel issues.

The correct fix is to install the .symbols files somewhere other than
/boot/kernel - unfortunately, no-one has developed the necessary
changes to the kernel installation.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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