[packagekit] Use PackageKit to install a proper debuginfo package?

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue May 26 02:49:54 PDT 2009


On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil at suse.cz> wrote:
> is there any way how to use PackageKit to install a package with debug
> informations? The current desktop environments has a nice crash handling
> wizards, but many non-experienced users still sends an unusable backtraces to
> bugzilla. Integration with PackageKit should helps them a lot.

Nothing at the moment, but it would be fairly easy to write a small
client shim to install the file that's needed (e.g.
/usr/lib/debug/usr/libexec/hal-acl-tool.debug)

All we need to do is convince the authors of bug-buddy / apport /
all-the-other-backtrace-grabbers to integrate with PK.

Richard



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