[Mageia-dev] How to install a debug package with its dependencies?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:56:07 -0700
Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Guillaume Rousse
> <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Le 13/09/2012 18:06, Phoenix Guo a écrit :
> >
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> Could someone kindly tell me that how to install a debug package
> >> with its dependencies?
> >
> > There is not dependencies between debug packages, in the sense of
> > 'debug package X need debug package Y to be used'.
> >
> >
> >> For example, I install the firefox-debug-10.0.7-1.mga2.x86_64
> >> package for debugging the firefox. While gdb load the firefox core
> >> dump file, gdb cannot read debugging symbols from other debug
> >> packages as they are not installed at the same time. Although they
> >> are needed for debugging.
> >
> > I don't know if there an easy way to do it. Usually, tough, the
> > name of the function where the crash does occurs is enough to tell
> > wich debug package is needed exactly.
> 
> gdb used to list the debug packages to install

It still can, see:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3417#c19

for a workaround.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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