debuginfo for ABRT

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:45:32 +0530, Sawrub wrote:

> On 02/20/2010 03:31 AM, Tony Nelson wrote:
> >  On 10-02-19 15:50:36, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> >
> >>  On 02/19/2010 10:34 PM, Sawrub wrote:
> >>
> >>>  On my Fedora 12 system, all of the 'debuginfo'
> >>>  [rawhide-debuginfo,fedora-debuginfo,updates-debuginfo,updates-
> >>>  testing-debuginfo] are disabled by default in the corresponding
> >>>  repo's under /etc/yum.repos.d/.  As debuginfo-install makes use
> >>>  of these for retrieving all the information for crash reporting,
> >>>  this should not work but still in present case ABRT can download
> >>>  the debuginfo packages. How is all this gettig possible.
> >>>
> >  ABRT doesn't use the yum configuration nor does it install the
> >  debuginfo packages where yum would install them.
> >
> >
> >
> >>>  Please guide if i'm missing any thing, thanks in advance.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>  yum --enablerepo<repository>
> >>
> >  True but irrelevant, as ABRT doesn't use a yum command line.
> >
> >
> Then how does is it getting posible for ABRT to download the packeges,
> its makes use of YUM as i understand from the following lines copied
> from manual available for debuginfo-install [man debuginfo-install] used
> by ABRT for installing of debuginfo's.

"Using Yum" does not imply "executing 'yum'". More commonly a tool uses
Yum's API. It can read the default Yum config file and enable/disable
repositories at run-time. It could even generate its own Yum config
on-the-fly.