Features/DebuginfoFS: Difference between revisions

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Summary

A read-only, internet-mountable filesystem that provides debuginfo (for use with gdb and other debugging tools), and

a client service to mount the debuginfo filesystem when needed.

Owner

Name: Will Woods
email: wwoods@redhat.com

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 42
Last updated: January 22, 2009
Percentage of completion: 10%

Detailed Description

When a program crashes or is otherwise misbehaving, one of the most helpful things to put in a bug report is a traceback of the offending process, gathered by using gdb. GNOME's bug-buddy does this automatically. But without debugging info, the tracebacks are incomplete.

debuginfo-install can be used to install the needed debuginfo packages, but this takes a long time (2-5 minutes) and 95% of the installed data is unused.

This Feature will provide scripts and tools to provide a WebDAV filesystem containing all the debuginfo needed for everything in Fedora, and a service to allow users (or automatic crash-reporting processes - like Features/CrashCatcher) to mount the filesystem when needed.

Benefit to Fedora

By simplifying the process of getting debugging info, we can improve the quality of bug reports, which should make it easier (and faster) to get bugs fixed.

Scope

How To Test

User Experience

Dependencies

Contingency Plan

Documentation

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Comments and Discussion

See Talk:Features/DebuginfoFS

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 == Summary ==
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+A read-only, internet-mountable filesystem that provides debuginfo (for use with {{package|gdb}} and other debugging tools), and
+a client service to mount the debuginfo filesystem when needed.
 == Owner ==
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 * Name: [[User:Wwoods|Will Woods]]
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 * email: [mailto:wwoods@redhat.com wwoods@redhat.com]
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 == Detailed Description ==
-<!-- Expand on the summary, if appropriate.  A couple sentences suffices to explain the goal, but the more details you can provide the better. -->
+When a program crashes or is otherwise misbehaving, one of the most helpful things to put in a bug report is a ''traceback'' of the offending process, gathered by using {{package|gdb}}. GNOME's {{package|bug-buddy}} does this automatically. But without debugging info, the tracebacks are incomplete.
+<code>debuginfo-install</code> can be used to install the needed debuginfo packages, but this takes a long time (2-5 minutes) and 95% of the installed data is unused.
+This Feature will provide scripts and tools to provide a WebDAV filesystem containing all the debuginfo needed for everything in Fedora, and a service to allow users (or automatic crash-reporting processes - like [[Features/CrashCatcher]]) to mount the filesystem when needed.
 == Benefit to Fedora ==
-<!-- What is the benefit to the platform?  If this is a major capability update, what has changed?  If this is a new feature, what capabilities does it bring? Why will Fedora become a better distribution or project because of this feature?-->
+By simplifying the process of getting debugging info, we can improve the quality of bug reports, which should make it easier (and faster) to get bugs fixed.
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