abrt wishlist

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:39:24 +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
> On 12/09/2010 07:46 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > I have trouble following what you're saying here.  At what point does
> > one need to "read the whole debuginfo file"?
> 
> I'm referring to this: 
> https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/crash-catcher/2010-September/000965.html

GDB on client side would need something like readonly NFS-like service to load
the .debug files byte-wise.  And this NFS-like service network protocol must
be signed by Fedora project like the current rpms are.

Then the fast operation of GDB on the client depends on these known issues:

 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GdbIndex which is now present in F14
   updated packages (but it still was not present in F14 GA packages).

   * Recheck THe .debug files reading via .gdb_index is really optimal for the
     network protocol.

 * Fixing GDB to not ever touch .debug files for libraries not going to be
   used in the specific backtrace at all.


Regards,
Jan