Blog post about package management (aimed at fedora)

Roland McGrath roland at redhat.com
Tue Jul 31 22:08:46 UTC 2007


> More to the point, asking the user to install debuginfo _ever_ is a
> failure.  You have the NEVRs of all packages involved in the crash.
> Feed them to the bug machine, let the distro reconstruct the backtrace.

In F8 with build IDs, having nothing but the core dump file will be enough
to easily determine (offline, later) all the packages that were involved. 




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