debuginfo

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 21:35 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 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.

yum doesn't read the headers for every package anymore.

but by taking the debuginfo packages out and putting them in their own
repo we make the xml smaller.

-sv