On Mon, 2020-10-05 at 11:20 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Hi - > > If you never use debuggers, tracing tools, profilers, crash dump > analysis tools, go ahead and skip this note! > > If you're still reading, you know you sometimes need debuginfo for the > packages you're working with. And you probably know that > % sudo debuginfo-install > is still the official way of getting at it. But did you know that we > have a better way? > > DEBUGINFOD has been a part of elfutils since late 2019. It can serve > debuginfo and source code for your own or for other people's binaries > to a whole gamut of tools. (GDB 10 will include support too!) It > works across HTTP, no root, no manual debuginfo-install, no big > downloads, no big deal. There are even some public servers that have > some Fedora content already, as well as from other distros. This page > covers more about the client & server situation: > > https://sourceware.org/elfutils/Debuginfod.html > > You can try it today against our test server: > > % export DEBUGINFOD_URLS=https://debuginfod.elfutils.org/ > % export DEBUGINFOD_PROGRESS=1 > % # $debugger-type-tool /path/to/program > % eu-stack -v -p $$ > % stap -L 'process.function("*").call' -c /bin/ls > > > The problem is that Fedora itself doesn't run a server, and our test > server can afford to carry only a subset of debuginfo/debugsource rpms > & architectures. So, fedora developers / users cannot get at all the > info, or from an official source. I wonder if it's time to get one > set up. If there is interest, I'd be happy to start discussing > logistics with fedora infrastructure folks. This seems like it sort of overlaps a bit with what the abrt retrace server does. It's not the same, but in order to do what it does, the retrace server *does* need to act as a remote provider of debuginfo. I wonder if it's possible to combine these somehow? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
