Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (322 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote:

> * Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx> [2007-07-05 09:09]:
> > * Improve debuginfo packages
> > 
> >   To get a complete stack trace, we need several debuginfo packages.
> >   The simple idea would be to copy dependencies from the main package to
> >   the debuginfo package.  But this would give too many dependencies
> >   since it would lead to include always the gcc-debuginfo package
> >   (currently 300 MB).
> > 
> >   Another idea is to reduce the size of debuginfo packages and mark them
> >   only for backtrace - with removing the source code.
> 
> But then I'd be for not removing  the source code debug packages but
> split into -debuginfo and -debuginfo-source, for example.
> 
> However, why not copying just the dependencies with a few exception,
> e.g. the gcc-debuginfo that you mentioned?

I would instead simply drop the source by default and provide a script
to unpack a source rpm at the place of the debuginfo sources.  For
selected packages we might ship diffs from the original sources to the
compiled ones, but I doubt it matters for anything but glibc and the
kernel.

Richard.
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