On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:30:26AM +0530, Sawrub wrote: > FTP listing of the Fedora mirrors hosted in India, is missing the > debuginfo packages. I'm able to locate the same under most of the > International mirrors with few of them to list picked from the mirror list > hosted at [1]http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/12/ are As you note later, yum will eventually fall back to finding a mirror somewhere globally, though perhaps not locally, that contains the debuginfo packages. So while it may not be quite as fast for you to download them, they are available. Our mirrors do a fantastic job for Fedora - we couldn't handle the several million installed systems worldwide without them. At the same time, each mirror has its own constraints on what resources they can provide. A full Fedora mirror alone takes just under 1TB right now, which is quite a lot to keep on every mirror. Mirrors therefore can be selective about what they carry, the only requirement being that they exclude at a whole directory level (they can't mirror only some files in any single directory). Historically, debuginfo hasn't been all that useful. With abrt being more widely used, and people being prodded through the GUI to download debuginfo to submit better bug reports, debuginfo is being used quite a bit more than before. But it's still a small number of downloads, but fairly large in disk space size, in comparison to all the other packages in the distro. So, a mirror, trying to be efficient in the use of their disk space and download bandwidth, often will exclude the debuginfo packages exactly because they are large and infrequently requested. I'll send a note to the mirrors asking them to consider carrying debuginfo, but if they don't wish to, I can't make them, nor would I even try. Thanks, Matt Fedora Mirror Wrangler -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
