[fedora-india] [Request] Adding the DebugInfo packages to the Mirrors

arpit Aggarwal arpit07531 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 19:27:12 UTC 2010


> FTP listing of the Fedora mirrors hosted in India, is missing the debuginfo
> packages.
>  none of the local mirrors mentioned out there seems to have that be it
> - ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/fedora/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/
> - ftp://mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in/fedora/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/
> - ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/linux/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/
> with an exception of one but with stale packages, dating back to Nov'09.
> http://fedoramirror.hnsdc.com/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/
>
> I request the admins to please take the neccessary steps for getting this
> done as the ABRT needs them for generating the backtrace. ABRT uses '
> yumdownloader' as said in '/usr/bin/abrt-debuginfo-install' which in turn
> looks for local mirrors but in vain has to look abroad for the same which in
> itself is a time consuming task, and the purpose of mirrors is not fulfilled
> to fullest.

We run glug-nith fedora mirror in NIT Hamirpur, We are sorry we can't
include debuginfo repository to our mirror due to limitations of disk
storage. We only keep fedora, updates and rawhide repositories of
fedora which are most frequently used.

Thanks and Regards,
Arpit Aggarwal


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