debuginfod server for openSUSE

Distributing ELF or DWARF debugging information, plus associated source code, for a collection of binaries.

What is debuginfod?

debuginfod is an HTTP file server that serves debugging resources to debugger-like tools.

Recall that debuginfod exists to distribute ELF or DWARF debugging information, plus associated source code, for a collection of binaries. If you need to run a debugger like gdb, a trace or probe tool like perf or systemtap, binary analysis tools like binutils or pahole, or binary rewriting libraries like dyninst, you will eventually need debuginfo that matches your binaries. The debuginfod client support in these tools enables a fast, transparent way of fetching this data on the fly, without ever having to stop, change to root, run all of the right commands. Run zypper install $package-debuginfo and try again. Debuginfo lets you debug anywhere, anytime.

Right now the service serves only openSUSE Tumbleweed packages for the x86_64 architecture and runs in an experimental mode.

Client support will be shortly added into binutils, gdb, strace and other tools.

For more information follow the elfutils status page.

Client configuration

The simple and obvious solution to use the debuginfod for openSUSE Tumbleweed is:

export DEBUGINFOD_URLS="https://debuginfod.opensuse.org/"
gdb ...

For every lookup, the client will send a query to the debuginfod server and get’s back the requested information.