Florian La Roche wrote: >> * look for a mirror that has debuginfo (sometimes it stops here with debuginfo >> for the kernel missing) > I just add http://debuginfo.centos.org/$releasever/$basearch/ as a new repo into > all CentOS installs. Disabled by default, but prepared to download rpms from if > I need to. With things setup the way they are - network distance from debuginfo to the head-node is ~ 400KiB/sec which means that sometimes it takes a very long time to sync the debuginfo's into the right place. eg. the sync for 5.3 started on Sat morning, its about 35% of the way through. Something to definitely consider / reconsider. >> * download manually >> * install manually (including ignoring the fact that debuginfo packages are >> unsigned...) > > Hope this can be changed, but no idea where in the process this needs to be. Change which part ? signing them or automating something ? The reason debuginfo's are not signed is that bringing them into a securebox for the signing process and pushing them out again easily triples the time factor. > I think it is very good to keep the debuginfo separate from the rest of the > mirror system to not overload mirrors. Question will be on how that scales > with more and more people accessing debuginfo.centos.org. At the moment, there are 2 internal and 1 external mirror for debuginfo - that can be increased if required. I know that atleast mirrorservice and kernel.org have previously said that they will make more space available to centos.org if we need it on their mirrors - and they are happy to host vhost's for debuginfo / beta's. - KB