Debuginfo packages take too much disk space

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 19 17:39:41 UTC 2011


On Tuesday 19 April 2011 16:55:11 John5342 wrote:
> 2011/4/19 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>:
> > Is it not possible to split the debuginfo package into smaller units?  In
> > order to report a single bug I had to install 3.1GB of debuginfo
> > packages.  It does seem excessive.
> 
> For standard Fedora packages i think [1] is supposed to solve this
> problem. I also read about a setup where only the debuginfo is
> downloaded for individual libraries/apps rather than per source rpm
> granularity but i forget what happened to that. I don't know how much
> of that applies if you are for instance using kde-redhat though since
> both those solutions would obviously require access to the appropriate
> debuginfo packages at some point.
> 
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RetraceServer

Yes, that looks really interesting.  I'm confused, though.   It says it can 
handle crashes in F14 as well as F15, but appears to be a feature of F15.  I 
know that's only a few weeks away, so is it a case of wait for that or build 
it myself?

Anne
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