On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 08:49 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:36:53 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On 01/30/2005 11:10:14 PM, seth vidal wrote:
>
> >
> > so it's a net loss for users who for I'd be willing to wager >95%
of
> > the
> > time do not EVER use debuginfo rpms.
> >
> > and for the 5% of the time they need them they can simply do:
> > yum --enablerepo=base-debug install foo-debuginfo
>
> Wouldn't that result in a dependency issue on a yum update though?
> IE foobar debug package would require a specific version of foobar, so
> if they enabled base-debug just to get foobar-debug, then later an
> update to foobar is released, wouldn't the foobar-debug package prevent
> yum from updating foobar because of dependency - if base-debug was not
> enabled?
Current debuginfo packages don't have such a dependency on a base package.
Which I'd consider to be a bug.
IMO, a debuginfo package must depend on those files (Note: files, not
package!) a debuginfo package carries the debug info for.
Ralf