debuginfo packages at different revision to main packages

[Roderick Johnstone]

Hi

Fedora 12 x86_64:

linux> rpm -qa | grep kdelibs
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.4.5-1.fc12.x86_64
kdelibs3-3.5.10-21.fc12.x86_64
kdelibs-4.4.4-1.fc12.x86_64
kdelibs-common-4.4.4-1.fc12.x86_64

So, last nights yum update updated debuginfo packages for kdelibs (and 
other kde packages) to 4.4.5 without updating the corresponding 
non-debuginfo package.

Presumably my mirror was only partially up to date, but should there not 
be dependencies to prevent this sort of thing happening?

Thanks

Roderick

[Kevin Kofler]

Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> Presumably my mirror was only partially up to date, but should there not
> be dependencies to prevent this sort of thing happening?

Not at this time, the technical reason being that debuginfo packages are per 
SRPM, not per subpackage, and dragging in all the subpackages would often 
not be a nice thing to do.

Kevin Kofler

[Roderick Johnstone]

On 20/07/10 16:10, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> > Presumably my mirror was only partially up to date, but should there not
> > be dependencies to prevent this sort of thing happening?
>
> Not at this time, the technical reason being that debuginfo packages are per
> SRPM, not per subpackage, and dragging in all the subpackages would often
> not be a nice thing to do.
>      Kevin Kofler

Thanks for the info Kevin.

Roderick