Article 5REKC [$] Adding package information to ELF objects

[$] Adding package information to ELF objects

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jake
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While it is often relatively straightforward to determine what packageprovided a binary that is misbehaving-crashing for instance-on Fedora andother Linux distributions, there are situations where it may be harder todo so. A feature recently proposed for Fedora 36-currentlyscheduled for the end of April 2022-would embed information into thebinaries themselves to show where they came from. It is part of amulti-distribution effort to standardize how this information is stored inthe binaries (and the libraries they use) to assist crash-reporting and other tools.
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