Bug 570352

Summary:	debuginfo-install unable to find the debuginfo rpm on RHEL5
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	John Call <johncall>
Component:	yum-utils	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version:	5.4	CC:	fche, mjw, wcohen
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Description John Call 2010-03-03 23:47:42 UTC

Description of problem:
Lack of documentation regarding yum repository enablement prior to downloading kernel-debuginfo.  Please consider including additional documentation which will instruct beginners to enable the rhel-debuginfo repository as a prerequisite to installing the required RPMs.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/pdf/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide.pdf

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Follow the instructions in section 2.1.2. Installing Required Kernel Information RPMs
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Actual results:
[root@pprddb ~]# debuginfo-install kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
Could not find debuginfo for main pkg: kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.x86_64
No debuginfo packages available to install


Expected results:
Installation of kernel-debuginfo RPM and any dependencies

Additional info:
Information on an IBM website (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/liaai/systemTap/liaaisystapinstallrhel.htm) directed me to enable the rhel-debuginfo repository via:
[root@pprddb ~]# yum --enablerepo=rhel-debuginfo install kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5

Comment 1 William Cohen 2012-08-10 21:25:19 UTC

I am able to replicate this problem on RHEL5.8. However, there shouldn't be a need to explicitly enable the rhel-debuginfo repo according to the man pages.
Other systems are able to install the debuginfo without explicit enabling of the *-debuginfo repos.

Comment 2 Frank Ch. Eigler 2012-08-15 15:41:35 UTC

Does this suggest a RHN or rel-eng problem rather than a stap documentation one?

Comment 3 William Cohen 2012-08-21 18:01:53 UTC

The debuginfo can be downloaded fine with the following, so it looks like the yum repo information is available (that would be a RHN/rel-eng problem if it didn't work):

 yum install kernel-debuginfo --enablerepo="*debuginfo*"

Suspect the problem is in debuginfo-install.  Moving this bug to yum-utils that contains debuginfo-install

Comment 4 James Antill 2013-03-14 19:15:20 UTC

debuginfo-install works be finding out the repo. "kernel" comes from (Eg. foo) and looking to enable "foo-debuginfo". Fixing it to enable repo. for specific packages would be an RFE that...

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