On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 09:06 +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: > On 01/17/2010 06:49 PM, Camilo Mesias wrote: > >> Someone else asked this earlier - but why do users need the debug-info > >> packages - only the debugger looking at the tracebacks needs this. So > >> seems installing the debug files on every desktop/server that has a > >> problem is much less efficient than just on the dev computer who needs > >> the info - no? > > > > This is a good point, the users shouldn't really have to install > > debuginfo for a one-off use. It would be better for a central server > > or service to have access to all the debuginfo files at all versions. > > The back end processing of symbol-less backtraces + version info to > > fully annotated ones could be automated. > > There has been such idea called debugfs, but it was cancelled (don't > remember the reason), but I agree that would be probably the best > option, because when user creates the backtrace he needs to install the > whole debuginfo, but then GDB reads just a few kilobytes. Debuginfofs-like operation is supported by abrt even now. /etc/abrt/plugins/CCpp.conf: ... # Additional directories to search for debuginfos. # For example, you can list a network-mounted shared store # of all debuginfos here. # ReadonlyLocalDebugInfoDirs = /path1:/path2:... ... The "only" remaining thing is to have a server with all debuginfos for all packages, present and past, to be accessible. IIRC there is http-fs module of something in FUSE, so http server will do. Who's willing to provide such a server and pay for it, that's the question... -- vda -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
