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

[Lev Veyde]

Hi Didi (and the guys),

We don't ship debug information in our d/s WGT, and personally I'm not sure
how useful it really may be, e.g. if the customers will get BSOD if that
will show any more useful information.

Luckily our VirtIO-Win drivers are quite stable, so we don't have many such
issues anyhow.
But I think it's best to see what VirtIO-Win guys think about it.
Amnon, what is your view on this?

My personal opinion is that for u/s users we may provide these files as a
separate package or simply forward them to the u/s VirtIO-Win ISO.
However I don't mind to keep things as is and having them as part of the
base installer for simplicity of distribution.
After all the new versions are not frequent and have to be downloaded only
once per oVirt instance, so the increased download size should not be an
issue.

If anything, I'm more concerned with the waste of the disk space of the VM,
and even that should not be a critical issue in most cases.
So it would be nice to have an option to install the debug information
during the install, so the user could choose by himself.

Thanks in advance,

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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,
> --
> Didi
>



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