On Sat, 05 Nov 2016 05:20:10 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Because -debuginfo is per SRPM, not per subpackage, so you can need the
> -debuginfo without having all subpackages (or even the main package)
> installed.
There could be for example: Conflicts: %{name} != %{version}-%{release}
But that has other problems.
There were multiple Bugs filed for this issue many years ago.
The problem is *-debuginfo.rpm is currently produced just by simple macros in
/usr/lib/rpm/macros but that does not work well for all the cases. It would
be best to have specific DNF *-debuginfo.rpm handling which should be possible
with DNF now. With YUM its maintainers always rejected any such filed Bugs.
One of the problems is that the main vs. debuginfo repos are commonly out of
sync. So the basic question is whether it is better to update the main
package ASAP (such as because it is an urgent security fix) breaking its
debugging or whether it is better to wait till even its up to date
*-debuginfo.rpm is available. Either case has serious drawbacks.
Then there are also options of giving up on *-debuginfo.rpm installation and
use some "debug info server" instead but that has never been implemented:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DebuginfoFS
Jan
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