Description of problem: On a fresh install of F12, ABRT can not retrieve debuginfo data, leading to many useless bug reports, wasted time, and frustration. Recently I discovered that the debuginfo repo is disabled by default in yum.repos.d/fedora.repo., without any indication from ABRT. Why do we (1) disable debuginfo by default, and (2) install ABRT by default, knowing full well that this combination results in a large number of useless bug reports?
Why do we (1) disable debuginfo by default, User usually don't need to install debuginfo, so it's disabled by default to speed up the yum actions. and (2) install ABRT by default, knowing full well that this combination results in a large number of useless bug reports? This is not true. ABRT temporary enables debuginfo repository when it needs them running: $ yum --enablerepo="*debuginfo*" but there is a bug in ABRT 1.0.0 that prevents from proper debuginfo install, it's already fixed in git and will be part of next update (which I'm planning to do today). Thank you for the report, Jirka
(In reply to comment #1) > but there is a bug in ABRT 1.0.0 that prevents from proper debuginfo install, > it's already fixed in git and will be part of next update (which I'm planning > to do today). I browsed through the git repo and found the fix you must have been referring to: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/abrt.git?p=abrt.git;a=commit;h=0cfbb721676ec01e95eebe093f369d8b5d4d0905 I applied it locally and it fixed the problem. abrt can now install debuginfo again. Looking forward to an update in Fedora.
abrt-1.0.1-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-1.0.1-1.fc12
abrt-1.0.1-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update abrt'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2009-12994