[PlanetCCRMA] repository: debuginfo packages

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Tue Aug 12 16:43:01 2003


> >Hi all, I have just moved all the debuginfo packages for RedHat 9 to a
> >new branch in the Planet CCRMA repository. I did this because all those
> >packages were really cluttering the "Not installed" display of synaptic
> >and adding no extra information. I doubt they have been used at all :-)
> >Anyway, I'll create a new repository for those packages and will post
> >the url when I'm done...
>
> Why not just trun that off, since anyone who might want to use them
> could rebuild the srpms himself?
> I find them an irritating nuisance and just put the following in my
> rpmmacro file

Somebody requested them a while ago (I think it was Steve), could be
useful I guess. Anyway, being in a separate branch should make them
invisible for most if not all users. I've never used them myself...

-- Fernando