Rawhide debuginfo package problems 2007-07-16

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jul 16 20:42:41 UTC 2007


Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net) 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.

Bill




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