On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-05 09:09]: > > * Improve debuginfo packages > > > > To get a complete stack trace, we need several debuginfo packages. > > The simple idea would be to copy dependencies from the main package to > > the debuginfo package. But this would give too many dependencies > > since it would lead to include always the gcc-debuginfo package > > (currently 300 MB). > > > > Another idea is to reduce the size of debuginfo packages and mark them > > only for backtrace - with removing the source code. > > But then I'd be for not removing the source code debug packages but > split into -debuginfo and -debuginfo-source, for example. > > However, why not copying just the dependencies with a few exception, > e.g. the gcc-debuginfo that you mentioned?
I would instead simply drop the source by default and provide a script to unpack a source rpm at the place of the debuginfo sources. For selected packages we might ship diffs from the original sources to the compiled ones, but I doubt it matters for anything but glibc and the kernel. Richard. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
