Bug 683569

Summary:	SystemTap documentation for RHEL 6 is incorrect about the location of the debuginfo packages
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Jacob Hunt <jhunt>
Component:	systemtap	Assignee:	Frank Ch. Eigler <fche>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-tools-bugs
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.0	CC:	mjw, pmuller, wcohen
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Fixed In Version:	systemtap-1.4-4.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Jacob Hunt 2011-03-09 18:02:05 UTC

Description of problem:

The documentation link:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/SystemTap_Beginners_Guide/using-systemtap.html#using-setup

Demonstrates how to configure yum to access the debuginfo packages from ftp.redhat.com.  With RHEL 6 the debuginfo packages are now in RHN.
  
Actual results:

Unable to access debuginfo packages per the instructions on the documentation

Expected results:

Correct configuration steps.

Comment 2 William Cohen 2011-03-09 19:00:58 UTC

There has been some fixup in the upstream manual to address this for RHEL:

http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git;a=commit;h=723d90dc57980faddeba50cd707ad9d9fdcf05f2

Comment 3 Frank Ch. Eigler 2011-03-12 16:32:56 UTC

Note that the docs.redhat.com copy of the documentation is extracted periodically from the systemtap sources by a separate group.  While we can update the version of the docs that is packed within the RPM, we cannot update docs.redhat.com ourselves.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:54:56 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-2011-0651.html