Are conflicts in debuginfo packages OK?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Nov 10 19:25:16 UTC 2009


Frank Ch. Eigler (fche at redhat.com) said: 
> > I'm guessing that "we don't offer them multilib" means that 32-bit
> > debuginfo packages aren't meant to be installed on 64-bit systems,
> > so I'll take this to mean that I shouldn't bother doing anything to
> > avoid conflicts.
> 
> Well, hold on, debuginfo for multilib'd libraries like glibc should be
> absolutely installable in parallel.

Not unless someone changes the layout of debuginfo entirely, as they
use common paths:

/usr/src/debug/<source tree name>
/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/...

Bill




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