On Sun, 23 May 2021 18:31:21 +0200 Niklas Haas <lists.suse@haasn.dev> wrote:
Hello,
I do a lot of debugging, and I generally find it annoying to have to wait for debuginfo to become available. I'm used to distros such as Gentoo where I can globally enable debuginfo for all packages, and never have this problem ever again.
I know that in recent times, openSuSE has started shipping gdb with the annoying `libdebuginfod` which attempts solving this problem but fails spectacularly. As such, I don't consider it a solution, for a number of reasons that are besides the point. (To anybody finding this email via google: comment out /etc/profile.d/debuginfod.sh to disable it)
What I _want_ to have happen is for `zypper in <package>` to automatically pull in `<package>-debuginfo` where available. Is there any way at all to accomplish this?
Thanks, Niklas
P.s.: It's possible with some parsing of the `zypper packages -i` output to construct a command line that installs `<package>-debuginfo` for all installed packages. However, this still has annoying shortcomings:
1. Uninstalling packages doesn't auto-clean the (no longer needed) debuginfo packages, thus causing them to continue littering the system over time.
2. This has to be re-run periodically in order to keep up with newly installed packages.
I was tempted to say +1 to this but then I thought that actually I, and I suspect most users, just want to use their systems without any pain and so debugging ought to be a fairly rare event. So then I have to consider whether it is worth investing the extra space and time to have debug information for everything versus the extra effort each time I need to debug anything. I'm not sure. But I use Leap. Perhaps the answer is different if you use TW? You don't say what you use?