On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 23:06 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le lundi 16 juillet 2007 à 16:42 -0400, Bill Nottingham a écrit : > > Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > The problem with that is that someone who runs 'debuginfo-install', even > > > > once, is left with an un-upgradeable system, without manual intervention. > > > > > > well presumably someone who installed debuginfo packages wants them to > > > be useful and not updated separately from the rest of the distro > > > > Sure, but debuginfo-install works *without* changing the repo definition. > > So your upgrade will fail, as the newer version of XYZ won't upgrade because > > the debuginfo repo isn't active. > > The usual problem is not debuginfo is not active but it's mirrored > several hours after the main repo so without version-lock debuginfo > packages are not in sync with main packages even though it's active > > IMHO if you don't want debuginfo packages to block a debuginfo-uninstall > utility should be provided, letting packages rot this way strikes me as > a particularly bad compromise. > > (btw I don't see how debuginfo-install would have worked in the first > place if the debug repo was not active) debuginfo-install activates the debug repos as it goes. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
