On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:14 PM, William Giokas <1007380@gmail.com> wrote:
What I would propose (and I've implemented this locally fine) is to have a separate series of repositories named [$repo-debug] that only contain the -debug packages, allowing those that don't bother with testing or debugging to simply not include them in their pacman.conf, but if there is something that they want to run valgrind or whatever on, they can simply enable the right [*-debug] repo for that package, and once they are done debugging simply remove that repo from their list along with the package. For really large packages, this will save people a while lot of time recompiling dependencies for these symbols.
Why do you suggest to use a different repository to debug packages instead of pushing them directly to existing repositories. Users will not suffers of having debug packages into main repositories. I see difficulties in bandwidth needed to push package (for dev/tu) and in storage space in all our mirror around the world. Having a separate debug repository doesnt' address this. -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A