On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 17:29 +0200, Morten Gerdsen wrote: > But what about repos like "xxx-debuginfo", "xxx-development" and > "xxx-source". Are these also only for testing and developing, or do I > need some of them? What are they? (Just trying to understand what I'm > doing) The xxx-debuginfo are needed to file intelligent bug reports when you have a repeatable crash. What you do in those cases - install the debuginfo package associated with the program that is crashing. Then (if it is a gnome app) - when the application crashes, bug-buddy (if installed) can often get a decent dump that will help the packager (or upstream developer) locate the problem in the source code and patch it. For example - if evolution is crashing when you do a certain task, you would enable base and updates debuginfo repositories and run yum install evolution-debuginfo (also install bug-buddy if you don't have it) Then - launch evolution, it should start bug-buddy when it crashed - and provide the appropriate dump. Save the dump to a file, and attach the file when you file the bug report. bug-buddy produces a pretty useless dump if the debuginfo package isn't installed.
