Keeping debuginfo packages in sync with yum

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Christopher Beland wrote:

> Right now in rawhide there are a large number of debuginfo package
> upgrades pending, for which the corresponding non-debuginfo package(s)
> cannot be installed because of dependency problems.  It can also happen
> that if you manually upgrade or downgrade a package, it can get out of
> sync with its debuginfo package.
>
> Would it be desirable to have some mechanism to track these
> relationships, and automatically sync the debuginfo packages, or at
> least warn about mismatches?  It would need to 1.) tolerate many-to-one
> relationships with some sort of "iff present, must be version X"
> semantics, and 2.) tolerate the debuginfo package not being installed at
> all.
>
> I think this is a bit different than what is being requested at:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470691
> Bug 470691 - debuginfo subpackages do not depend on main package

It's a bit heavyhanded but maybe it would be wiser to do:

yum remove \*debuginfo\*

whenever you're finished debugging whatever you're debugging.

-sv