Thursday 15 September 2022

Re: New service announcement: https://debuginfod.ubuntu.com

Hurray!

Awesome to see this arrive, even if it's slightly after I left Canonical xD

Thanks for the hard work setting this up for Ubuntu (and Debian)!

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 9:23 PM Sergio Durigan Junior
<sergiodj@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> [ Sending to ubuntu-devel as well. ]
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to announce a new service for the Ubuntu community: an
> instance of debuginfod, running at https://debuginfod.ubuntu.com.
>
> Debuginfod is a project whose purpose is to serve ELF/DWARF/source-code
> information over HTTP(S). In a nutshell, by using a debuginfod service
> you will not need to install debuginfo (a.k.a. ddebs) packages anymore;
> the symbols will be served to GDB (or any other debuginfo consumer that
> supports debuginfod) over the network.
>
> I consider the service to be in a beta state right now. There are no
> plans for outages or anything drastic, but I don't want to promise a
> 99.9999% uptime either. I am constantly working to improve the
> deployment and it will be very interesting to see how it will cope with
> real usage after this announcement hits the news.
>
> Our debuginfod instance will be serving debug symbols for all currently
> supported releases of Ubuntu, plus the development version. All
> repositories are supported: main, universe, restricted and multiverse.
>
> If you are using an Ubuntu release that still doesn't have automatic
> configuration for the service, you can easily set up your system to use
> it by exporting the DEBUGINFOD_URLS shell variable, like this (assuming
> you are using Bash as your shell):
>
> export DEBUGINFOD_URLS="https://debuginfod.ubuntu.com"
>
> If you would like to know more about the service, including a more
> detailed explanation on how to set it up, I strongly encourage you to
> visit the Ubuntu Server Guide's page on debuginfod:
>
> https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/service-debuginfod
>
> There is also a FAQ available, where I am gradually answering questions
> that the community might have:
>
> https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/service-debuginfod-faq
>
> I would like to thank everybody who helped me set this up. The list is
> long to write here, but you certainly know who you are.
>
> Thank you, and enjoy!
>
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