[CentOS-devel] debuginfo packages on the mirrors

Sat Apr 4 01:11:45 UTC 2009
Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org>

On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 00:24 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 04/03/2009 05:18 PM, Pär Andersson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> btw, does the kernel-debug not give you already everything that is 
> needed for systemtap/oprofile ? thats already there in the main distro tree.

Not sufficient for crash which is where I last came up against it.  It
needs vmlinux.

Phil