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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:28:42 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel/generic-dbg, world/base-dbg
Message-ID:  <20190916022842.GA49187@admin.sibptus.ru>
In-Reply-To: <462f6c2c-1b8b-4d76-f086-9999ae26067e@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20190914052029.GA87950@admin.sibptus.ru> <462f6c2c-1b8b-4d76-f086-9999ae26067e@FreeBSD.org>

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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 14/09/2019 06:20, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > Where in the base system are kernel/generic-dbg and world/base-dbg
> > located? freebsd-update says:
> >=20
> > The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
> > kernel/generic kernel/generic-dbg world/base world/base-dbg world/doc
> >=20
> > I don't think I need them, how do I find and delete them after the
> > upgrade?
>=20
> These are collections of debug symbols for the various binaries
> installed in the system.  If you ever need to eg. generate a back trace
> as part of a bug report, they mean that each frame will be identified by
> function name and so forth -- in effect they mean that you can run gdb
> against any binary in the system and achieve meaningful results.
>=20
> Since they are stored separately from the binaries you're running they
> have no deleterious effect on normal system usage.  Aside from taking up
> a bit of disk space, you won't suffer any ill effects from having them.
>=20
> I believe all of the debug files are installed under /usr/lib/debug -- see

Thanks, indeed they are there, about 800M on an 11.2 system.

I don't think I care much for them, there should be an easy way to
obtain them from somewhere, or build them, if I even need them.


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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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