[NTLUG:Discuss] debuginfo in rpm repositories

[Peter A. Koren]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 08:21 -0500, Burton Strauss wrote:
> 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
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> 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 ?
> 

What confuses me is that some of the debuginfo rpms were of trivial
size, far smaller then the regular rpm. But for lyx on one of the
repositories, the debuginfo version was 3 to 4 times larger than the
straight lyx rpm.