debuginfo for ABRT

[Sawrub]

On 02/20/2010 10:56 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:45:32 +0530, Sawrub wrote:
>
>    
>> On 02/20/2010 03:31 AM, Tony Nelson wrote:
>>      
>>>   On 10-02-19 15:50:36, Aioanei Rares wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>>   On 02/19/2010 10:34 PM, Sawrub wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>>   On my Fedora 12 system, all of the 'debuginfo'
>>>>>   [rawhide-debuginfo,fedora-debuginfo,updates-debuginfo,updates-
>>>>>   testing-debuginfo] are disabled by default in the corresponding
>>>>>   repo's under /etc/yum.repos.d/.  As debuginfo-install makes use
>>>>>   of these for retrieving all the information for crash reporting,
>>>>>   this should not work but still in present case ABRT can download
>>>>>   the debuginfo packages. How is all this gettig possible.
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>   ABRT doesn't use the yum configuration nor does it install the
>>>   debuginfo packages where yum would install them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>>>   Please guide if i'm missing any thing, thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>   yum --enablerepo<repository>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>   True but irrelevant, as ABRT doesn't use a yum command line.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Then how does is it getting posible for ABRT to download the packeges,
>> its makes use of YUM as i understand from the following lines copied
>> from manual available for debuginfo-install [man debuginfo-install] used
>> by ABRT for installing of debuginfo's.
>>      
> "Using Yum" does not imply "executing 'yum'". More commonly a tool uses
> Yum's API. It can read the default Yum config file and enable/disable
> repositories at run-time. It could even generate its own Yum config
> on-the-fly.
>    
Thanks a lot for removing the confusion.

Another question that comes up now, is the mirrors list that it uses 
same that used by YUM. Also does it uses them in the similar fashion to 
YUM like locating the fatest and closest mirror for them.

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