mirroring rawhide

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Wed Sep 29 13:54:04 UTC 2004


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, seth vidal wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 08:48, Tom Diehl wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > 
> > > What can be left out when mirroring rawhide for local single user
> > > use.  (4 home machines)
> > > 
> > > SRPMS is one of course... what else is not required for yum to work?
> > > 
> > > images ... I guess could go  ... What about `debug'.  Is that stuff
> > > used during any of yums chores?
> > 
> > No, yum does not use them. They are for debugging the individual rpms
> > so I suspect you do not need them.
> 
> It _can_ use them.
> 
> yum install somepkg-debuginfo should work just fine.

Yes, just like any other package. I took Harry's question to mean does yum
need them. I guess I should have said it does not _need_ them. 

Sorry, for the confusion.

Tom




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