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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-factory] debuginfo per default?
From:       Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil () suse ! cz>
Date:       2009-05-21 11:03:31
Message-ID: 200905211303.31458.mvyskocil () suse ! cz
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On Wednesday 20 of May 2009 10:53:38 Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 of May 2009, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:44:04PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Sascha 'saigkill' Manns
> > > Make sense, except the debugsource files are huge.  I have a T-1 here
> > > to download with and iirc it takes about 30 minutes to get them.  Not
> > > my favorite experience, but without them the crash logs are useless.
> > >
> > > Maybe the true factory set should have that dependency, but the
> > > version for 11.1 should not?
> >
> > You actually would want the -debuginfo for better backtrace,
> > not the -debugsource.
> >
> > However the recommended way is:
> >
> > If you see a crash-> install debuginfo packages -> recreate the crash
>
>  That is actually not necessary with KDE4.3. There is a time between the
> crash and the time the backtrace is analyzed, at which point it is
> sufficient to install the needed debuginfo packages, and there is even a
> button for recreating the backtrace if it turns out more debuginfo packages
> are needed.
>
>  I expected there would be also support for automatically getting the
> needed debuginfo packages installed using zypper, but that hasn't made it
> in KDE4.3.

Something like it should be great. I'd be good if it can be done via 
PackageKit, but I think current version don't support it.

Regards
Michal Vyskocil

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