debuginfo for sub packages (Help with RPM SPEC files)

[Matt McCutchen]

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:47 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:37 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 05:10 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > It's normal to get a single foo-debuginfo package from a foo.src.rpm.
> > > Please explain exactly why this is a problem for you.
> > 
> > I can't speak to Trever's case, but I can say that it's pretty
> > irritating to need debuginfo for every compiler in gcc when all I really
> > need is debuginfo for libgcc:
> > 
> > atropine:~% stat -c %s /usr/lib/debug/lib/libgcc_s-*debug
> > 327080
> > atropine:~% rpm -qf --qf="%{size} %{name}\n" /usr/lib/debug/lib/libgcc_s*debug
> > 329486271 gcc-debuginfo
> > 
> > So subpackaged debuginfo would actually be pretty nice.  gcc is
> > admittedly something of an outlier here, I admit; I don't think most
> > packages need subpackaged debuginfo, but the ones that do...
> 
> Wasn't debuginfofs supposed to solve that ?

Yes, debuginfofs would be an even better solution, but it is not
operational yet.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DebuginfoFS

-- 
Matt