SRPMS/debuginfo (was Re: [CentOS] Help rebuilding kernel get mount error on reboot)

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Jun 14 16:03:41 UTC 2005


On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:46:19AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> We don't normally retain the debuginfo ... neither does RH make it
> available.

Since they don't, it'd be nice if CentOS would.


> I am trying to retain it for new packages (as someone has asked) but it
> won't be on the normal mirrors.  There will be one machine
> (vault.centos.org) that will get debuginfo.

Is there a particular reason to throw it away? Or is it just that it takes a
lot of space? I'd like to have it in our mirror here.... I think it's more
generally useful than, say, the two s390 trees.

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