On 01/13/2017 12:03 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 01/13/2017 11:30 AM, Michael Mraka wrote: >> Przemek Klosowski: >>> Easy access to debug information is very well done in Fedora, and is >>> one of its most empowering features. It's very easy to trace >> ... >>> Once the debuginfo is installed, however, we have a little bit of a >>> stalemate, because the regular updates do not update the debuginfo >>> files, so the symbols and sources get out of synch with the actual >>> installed software. It's not a big problem---all that's required is >>> to enable the appropriate debuginfo repos for the update, but I >>> haven't found a really nice way of doing it. Currently I use >>> >>> dnf update --enablerepo *debuginfo >> >> /etc/dnf/plugins/debuginfo-install.conf >> >> The minimal content of conf file should contain main sections with >> enabled and autoupdate parameter. >> >> autoupdate >> A boolean option which controls updates of debuginfo packages. If >> options is enabled and there are debuginfo packages installed it >> automatically enables all configured debuginfo repositories. >> (Disabled by default.) >> > Ah, wonderful. The default setting seems to be 'autoupdate=0' though. Is there a > problem with changing it to '1'? People who install debuginfos do it for > presumably well founded reasons, and I believe enabling autoupdate would serve > them better. Probably because debuginfo files are very large and you might not want to waste bandwidth keeping them updated. (Just guessing here)
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