[Spice-devel] [nsis v3 2/2] build: Don't add .pdb debug files to the installer

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Frediano Ziglio <fziglio at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:26:00AM -0500, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
>> > >
>> > > The .pdb files contain the debug information for the drivers. They
>> > > increase significantly the size of the installer, so it's better not to
>> > > ship them.
>> >
>> > On the other side bug report will contain much less informations.
>> > Not really sure about it.
>>
>> Which bug reports? :) (I don't think I ever got any report about driver
>> crashes). I would reconsider when we start getting bug reports where we
>> need these symbols.
>>
>> Christophe
>>
>
> No idea, was just thinking that if somebody packaged these files maybe they want
> them installed. They are not directly in the virtio-win package but in the ISO.
> Maybe we should remove from the ISO too ?
> I had a look at the inf files and they not reference the pdb files.

Adding Lev.

Lev - do we ship pdb files in RHV-guest-tools?
Did we ever get bug reports about drivers that included relevant information
which is not available without the pdb files?

Thanks,
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Didi