Features/DebuginfoFS

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 40
• 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.

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/DebuginfoFS

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