[NTLUG:Discuss] debuginfo in rpm repositories

[Burton Strauss]

Means it's built with debugging information.  This could be as simple as the
-g flag to gcc (quoting the man page):

       GCC has various special options that are used for debugging either
your program or GCC:

       -g  Produce debugging information in the operating system's native
format (stabs, COFF, XCOFF, or DWARF 2).  GDB can work
           with this debugging information. 
         ...

Or it could be a #define in the code.


Usually if you don't have problems and aren't involved w/ the development,
you don't bother with the debugging release.

-----Burton

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of Peter A. Koren
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 6:55 AM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] debuginfo in rpm repositories

What is the purpose of binary rpm packages in repositories with the
form:

thepackage-debuginfo-whatever.i386

as opposed to

thepackage-whatever.i386 ?



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