ABRT considered painful

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:40:35 +0100, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> On 01/02/2010 09:32 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> >Moreover ABRT does not install the whole debuginfo package but only copies the
> >needed specific .debug files out of it somewhere - as know the ABRT people.
> 
> What happens if the software version N crashes, then the updates
> install a later version, and the ABRT tool is run afterwards? With
> updates coming fast and furious, this is not uncommon, and I think
> it leads to confusion when the old stack trace is interpreted
> against the debugging info from the different software version.

Unaware of the ABRT issue;  But even with the installed debuginfo packages the
problem exists:
	`yum update' gets the installed debuginfos out of sync
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432806
There are various Bugs referenced, such as:
	Debug info RPMs do not "require" exact maching binary rpm
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=151598

Currently YUM at least updates both the main package and its debuginfo through
yum-plugin-auto-update-debug-info.  The problem is with all the mirrors and
daily Fedora updates the main repository and the debuginfo repository are
commonly off-by-one and thus the debuginfo packages still do not match.


Regards,
Jan