my broken memory and debuginfos
April 26, 2007
I was talking to someone on irc #fedora-devel the other day about needing a way for a user to install the debuginfo for a certain package and all of that package’s immediate dependencies’ debuginfo packages. However, I cannot remember who it was. Sad, isn’t it.
Anyway – I wrote debuginfo-install tonight which does just that.
I’ll see about getting it included in yum-utils if it what it does makes sense to whomever it was who was asking about it. 🙂
journal/notes 
April 26, 2007 at 7:09 am
[…] source repo for the package also, also don’t know how to automate that) Now Seth Vidal wrote debuginfo-install to get the debug packages (and dependencies) for a package. Now if we could automate all these […]
April 30, 2007 at 6:35 am
LOVING this tool already – makes life much easier for me as a tester, and less aggravating for for the GNOME and Fedora devs, I’m sure.
May 9, 2007 at 9:06 am
Hi Seth,
This was probably me, and including this tool in yum-utils makes every possible sense to me (and then the GNOME debug page could be updated to document this)
Thank you 🙂
March 25, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Is there anything about this debuginfo-install
script that would make a once stable gcc setup
unstable? I ran on my fedora 8 machine:
debuginfo-install boost.i386 gcc.i686 glibc.i386
(or whatever my gdb told me to run)
and since then when I use threading
my application segmentation faults. It installed
about 20 packages so I don’t just want to
uninstall them all without cause.
Mark
March 25, 2008 at 9:12 pm
nothing in the script. it is possible, I guess, that the debuginfo packages could be adding something that would make certain threading break.
November 3, 2009 at 6:06 pm
YES! Thank you! Very nice tool. As a developer I find it very handy.