Bug 500639

Summary:	yaboot-debuginfo is empty
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
Component:	yaboot	Assignee:	Roman Rakus <rrakus>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
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Version:	5.4	CC:	rvokal, tsmetana
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Description Alexander Todorov 2009-05-13 14:12:42 UTC

Description of problem:
yaboot-debuginfo is empty although yaboot package contains ELF objects

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yaboot-debuginfo-1.3.13-7.el5.ppc.rpm

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -qpl yaboot-debuginfo-1.3.13-7.el5.ppc.rpm
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Actual results:
empty package

Expected results:
package contains debugging information

Additional info:

Comment 1 Roman Rakus 2009-05-13 14:51:40 UTC

yaboot is bootloader. It contains ELF object, but it is not Linux or MacOS executable file. Yaboot is meant to be executed only by OpenFirmware.

Comment 3 Alexander Todorov 2009-05-13 15:03:35 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> yaboot is bootloader. It contains ELF object, but it is not Linux or MacOS
> executable file. Yaboot is meant to be executed only by OpenFirmware.  

In this case the -debuginfo package should not be generated at all.

Comment 5 Roman Rakus 2009-05-20 12:21:40 UTC

Fixed in yaboot-1.3.13-8.el5.ppc.rpm

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 11:53:25 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1386.html