Re: Extending coredump note section to contain filenames

[Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>]

On 03/12/2012 08:08 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:58:31 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>       This is better, isn't it?
>>       Wouldn't it be nice if gdb would retrieve binary's name by itself?
>
> Yes, that yum should have been executed automatically, instead of just
> suggested by that:
> 	Try: yum --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo='*-debuginfo' install /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/ec/1fd70dbee0db36eff9527254d9d2bbfd260f13

My network is down. "yum install" won't work.


> But this is a user interface issue, it was discussed with PackageKit people
> etc. but it went nowhere.
>
> Sorry but I cannot code the whole OS myself including all the Gnome UI
> interfaces.
>
>>       (BTW: nothing prevents it from checking build ids and refusing
>>       to use it if they don't match.)
>
> And if they do not match it will need to run the yum command above anyway.
> So why to code two ways where the first one (by filename) works only sometimes
> while the second way works always?

My network is down. "yum install" won't work.


>> Does it follow from the above that filenames are *never* useful?
>
> They can be sometimes useful but they are superseded by build-ids; with
> build-ids they can be safely ignored.

I just gave you an example where filename is useful.
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