Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-11-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 01:54:25PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Eddy Petrișor wrote: > > No, is not luck, just that all udebs which could be used are added to > > the pool of binaries which need symbols, AFAICT: > > No, the code you qouted is specific to building floppy disk images. > > As I said be

Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Eddy Petrișor wrote: > No, is not luck, just that all udebs which could be used are added to > the pool of binaries which need symbols, AFAICT: No, the code you qouted is specific to building floppy disk images. As I said before, once d-i has access to the installation media, it loads the full li

Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
Hello Daniel, I am glad you took this to the debian-boot mailing list as Sven Luther, who currently is not even a member of the Debian Installer team, filed this request without discussing it on the debian-boot list first. As such, this is an "unauthorized" request. On Tuesday 31 October 2006 2

Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Eddy Petrișor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: >> So, i am not entirely sure how d-i handles the case at hand here, where >> libraries are part of the actual image, but symbols are removed during >> reduction, b

Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Eddy Petrișor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:05:26AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:06:12PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: >>> A version of gdb as .udeb, which could easily be loaded inside the d-i would >>> be very useful

Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Eddy Petrișor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:09:46PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Sven Luther wrote: >>> My impression is that d-i loads the full libraries later on, or something >>> such. >>

Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:36:54AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > So, i am not entirely sure how d-i handles the case at hand here, where > > libraries are part of the actual image, but symbols are removed during > > reduction, bec

Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:06:12PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > A version of gdb as .udeb, which could easily be loaded inside the d-i would > be very useful for developers. This would come in handy to debug various bugs > which are otherwise hard to track, like crashes in the graphical installer, >

Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > If they did that, you could just wget a full GDB binary. It doesn't > need anything else in the package besides the executable. But I don't > think d-i does what you describe (since I tried to use this approach > for strace recently, and there were missing symbols in li

Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:36:54AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: So, i am not entirely sure how d-i handles the case at hand here, where libraries are part of the actual image, but symbols are removed during red

Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:09:46PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sven Luther wrote: > > My impression is that d-i loads the full libraries later on, or something > > such. > > AFAIK, this never happens. The reduction is done mainly for the thing

Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:05:26AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:06:12PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > A version of gdb as .udeb, which could easily be loaded inside the d-i would > > be very useful for developers. This would come in handy to debug various > > bugs >

Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > So, i am not entirely sure how d-i handles the case at hand here, where > libraries are part of the actual image, but symbols are removed during > reduction, because they are not needed by the .udebs in the image, but they > are needed

Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
Package: gdb Severity: normal Tags: d-i A version of gdb as .udeb, which could easily be loaded inside the d-i would be very useful for developers. This would come in handy to debug various bugs which are otherwise hard to track, like crashes in the graphical installer, or problems like i am havi