Re: A thought on abrt

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 16:24 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
Given that abrt is designed to make bug-reporting easier for the
average
user, I suspect a lot of b/w is being consumed by these downloads
that
would not otherwise be the case. Would it not be an idea to rethink
how
this is handled? By definition abrt already knows exactly which
packages
are involved in the problem, so it could simply report what they are
and
add the coredumps/logs/whatever.

Ah, but which version of the program were you running when abrt kicked
in? To diagnose a failure, the maintainers need as much info as then
can get about the specifics of the program that failed (what files had
been loaded, where the program pooped, what was the status of the
stack, lots of things).

That's all in the coredump, which as I said would still be added to the
report. If abrt knows enough to download debuginfo packages, it follows
that it knows enough to give a list of what's needed without having to
download them.

Ideally, yes, abrt could report the version of the program and make
the maintainers go and get the debug info, but there would be big
holes in their visibility as to what made YOUR instance crap out.

Apart from the coredump, logs and my description of what happened, there
is absolutely nothing that I can send them that they can't in principle
get for themselves.

poc

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