debuginfo default install

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Thu Feb 25 21:53:48 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 20:12 +0100, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> On 25.2.2010 16:42, Jon Masters wrote:
> > It seems most days now something breaks and I want to debug it, but then
> > have to debuginfo-install. Is there a way to tell yum to always pull in
> > the corresponding debuginfo packages whenever it installs something?
> 
> 1) enable -debuginfo repo with your other repos
> 2) install always with yum install <something>{,-debuginfo}
> 3) profit!
> 
> What's missing?

 The "magic" bits that debuginfo-install does, Eg.

debuginfo-install samba-winbind-clients

...putting that in a plugin (or even, in the above plugin) isn't
amazingly hard, but nobody has done it yet (I'll be happy to help
someone, but I'm not dying to do it myself).

 Of course, there there's:

[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568488]
yum-plugin-auto-update-debug-info should not affect 'install'

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