From: Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: rm newbsd.gdb after kernel relink?]
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:43:52 +0200

Le Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 08:15:16AM +0200, Theo Buehler a écrit :
> Guess the simple diff belongs on tech rather than misc...
> 
> I think this is worth fixing as it bloats /usr/share by 100~250M
> depending on platform and kernel that I checked.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 01:19:45PM -0500, Andrew Daugherity wrote:
> > On a system which was installed several years ago, back when the
> > automatic disklabel gave 2 GB to /usr, that filesystem is filling up
> > to the point sysupgrade failed.  sysclean helped me get enough space
> > to upgrade, but in searching for other things to clean up, I
> > discovered a large (225 MB) newbsd.gdb file in the kernel relink
> > directory.
> > 
> > The Makefile in said directory removes bsd.gdb before renaming newbsd
> > to bsd.  I think it should be removing newbsd.gdb instead, like so:
> > ====
> > --- /usr/share/relink/kernel/GENERIC.MP/Makefile~ Sun Apr 13 09:19:41 2025
> > +++ /usr/share/relink/kernel/GENERIC.MP/Makefile Wed Jun 11 12:51:38 2025
> > @@ -2434,7 +2434,7 @@
> >   ${SYSTEM_LD_HEAD}
> >   ${SYSTEM_LD} swapgeneric.o
> >   ${SYSTEM_LD_TAIL}
> > - rm -f bsd.gdb
> > + rm -f newbsd.gdb
> >   mv -f newbsd bsd
> > 
> >  update-link:
> 
> Good find. The Makefile is generated by 'make config' step for kernel
> builds and 'make install' creates and installs the terball.
> 
> The bug is in config(8):

Oooh ... nice ! definitely ok :)