[CentOS-devel] debuginfo packages on the mirrors

[James Antill]

On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 18:18 +0200, Pär Andersson wrote:
> Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > the files were only there for a  short while and removed a long time 
> > back, are your mirrors lagging so far out ?
> 
> Nope, we (mirror.nsc.liu.se) get those packages from the CentOS 
> msync-dvd mirrors. I just verified that the files are present on both 
> centose and centosj3 which is the ones our rsync usually hit.
> 
> However I think having debuginfo packages for the kernel in the main 
> repository would really be a good thing as tools like oprofile and 
> systemtap (both in base) need kernel-debuginfo to be usable.

 If you start shipping base-debuginfo disable, then someone might want
to add the plugin-auto-debug-info package to CentOS:

http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum-utils.git;a=tree;f=plugins/auto-update-debuginfo;h=014fff021a1ae7db03aef595f42d5235c8049499;hb=ae4d9299e661004f620c3b2bc35feee807238965

...to take care of updates.

-- 
James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora