Bug 500639 - yaboot-debuginfo is empty
Summary: yaboot-debuginfo is empty
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: yaboot
Version: 5.4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Roman Rakus
QA Contact: Alexander Todorov
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-13 14:12 UTC by Alexander Todorov
Modified: 2014-01-13 00:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-09-02 11:53:25 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2009:1386 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE yaboot bug fix and enhancement update 2009-09-01 11:56:48 UTC

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
2.
3.
  
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
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