debuginfo

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Wed Jun 22 04:35:42 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 21:20 -0700, David Kewley wrote:
> Some debuginfo rpms have snuck into updates-released.  Sneaky 
> sneakers...
> 
> Speaking of debuginfo, is the idea of keeping them *out* of repos that 
> if you want to debug, then you need to rebuild & install your own-built 
> debuginfo package?

No - I've been specifically asked to install them when reporting a bug.
I think the idea is to not have yum have to chew so hard on headers for
packages that are only needed when something goes wrong.




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