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Re: Build IDs for finding packages
- From: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:42:35 +0100
- Subject: Re: Build IDs for finding packages
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:47:59AM -0800, Josh Stone wrote:
> The translation happens through the yum repo's filelists, which is an
> extra set of metadata that gets fetched when you request any path-based
> operation. Thus it's unrelated to what you have installed.
yeah, that is a better description than I gave. I assumed that what
you have installed is up to date. That might not always be the case.
> As Mark mentioned, it will only work for the packages actually in the
> repos, and Fedora only keeps the most current update in the repos, not
> anything formerly released. He only included fedora-debuginfo, which
> has the packages of the original release, but you probably should use
> --enablerepo=updates-debuginfo too.
Or even better, --enablerepo=*-debuginfo
Cheers,
Mark