Rawhide debuginfo package problems 2007-07-16
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Jul 16 19:00:42 UTC 2007
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Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net) said:
> BTW it would be nice if our debuginfo macro made debuginfo packages
> depend on the exact version of the package they've been created from.
>
> All too often debuginfo repositories are not in sync with the main
> repositories so users get debuginfo packages installed for the wrong
> version of the on-system packages.
The problem with that is that someone who runs 'debuginfo-install', even
once, is left with an un-upgradeable system, without manual intervention.
Bill
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