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Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
 > If you keep /usr/obj around, you do not need symbol files at all,
 > and INSTALL_NODEBUG?=true in make.conf is enough. You can always
 > use kernel.debug and modules with debugging symbols from build
 > directory for kgdb.

OK ...  But that won't work for /boot/kernel.old.

Best regards
   Oliver

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