Hello,
We didn't mean to not include the debuginfo repo in the yum 
configuration files.  I thought they were in there.  It wasn't until I 
was doing more documentation about the changes since SL5 that I noticed 
they weren't there.
We are working on updating sl-release so that the debuginfo repo's are 
in there.  Expect it by the end of the week.

As for RedHat yum repositories, you must be thinking about Fedora.  I 
don't have any yum repository configuration files on my RHEL machines. 
It's all handled through rhn.

Troy

On 03/14/2011 07:59 PM, Vaclav Mocek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am wondering why Scientific Linux doesn't support debuginfo
> repositories in the same way as Red Hat does (disabled in *.repo files,
> distributed directly in the directory with binaries).
> I found some debug information 'hidden' in the directory
> "/linux/scientific/6rolling/archive/debuginfo/", however I am not sure
> if it contains all debuginfo from all other binary directories and is
> already in sync.
>
> There are two reasons, why we shall care about debuginfo as a first
> class citizen:
> 1) ABRT
> ("http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-abrt.html")
> 2) SystemTap
> ("http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/index.html")
>
> Without debuginfo it is difficult to generate a sensible crash log
> (ABRT) and it helps [Red Hat] developers a lot. If one wants to analyse
> and tune the performance of the system, the SystemTap is absolutely
> essential and it needs debuginfo as well.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Vaclav M.


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