On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 08:49 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:36:53 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > On 01/30/2005 11:10:14 PM, seth vidal wrote: > > > > > > > > so it's a net loss for users who for I'd be willing to wager >95% of > > > the > > > time do not EVER use debuginfo rpms. > > > > > > and for the 5% of the time they need them they can simply do: > > > yum --enablerepo=base-debug install foo-debuginfo > > > > Wouldn't that result in a dependency issue on a yum update though? > > IE foobar debug package would require a specific version of foobar, so > > if they enabled base-debug just to get foobar-debug, then later an > > update to foobar is released, wouldn't the foobar-debug package prevent > > yum from updating foobar because of dependency - if base-debug was not > > enabled? > > Current debuginfo packages don't have such a dependency on a base package. Which I'd consider to be a bug. IMO, a debuginfo package must depend on those files (Note: files, not package!) a debuginfo package carries the debug info for. Ralf
