Description of problem: There is no preconfigured .repo file that points to the debug/ packages in the base distro: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/debug/ However, fedora-updates.repo and fedora-updates-testing.repo are sufficient for accessing the debuginfo packages in their respective repositories, because the repodata there references the debug/ subdirectory, precluding the need for separate fedora-updates-debug.repo etc. files. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4-2 How reproducible: always Expected results: There should be a preconfigured .repo file to access the base distro debuginfo packages, or the directory layout should be changed to allow the base repodata to reference the debuginfo packages. This repo could be enabled by default (just like it effectively is for updates and updates-testing) because by default users will not have any debuginfo packages installed.
I'm hoping that we ship by default some way to point debuginfo at one repository, and regular packages at another. Often mirrors don't want to download the debuginfo packages because they are incredibly large and not often useful. It would then be useful to have debuginfo available from the main mirrors normally, but regular packages can be grabbed from your nearest custom configured mirror.
In the development tree the debug/ directory is within the main arch directory, thus included in the createrepo run. Same goes for the FC5 test releases.