BuildID and proprietary (graphics) drivers
Roland McGrath
roland at redhat.com
Sun Aug 19 20:34:50 UTC 2007
> On Sunday 19 August 2007, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > For such a package I don't know useful things the debuginfo rpm might ever
> > have. Why don't you just disable it entirely?
>
> That's probably an ok approach. But with debuginfo packages disabled,
> rpmbuild does not strip all the binaries which it does with them enabled, so
> people may want to strip executables and shared libs explicitly during build
> if the symbols are not useful.
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip is run when find-debuginfo.sh isn't.
> > %define _enable_debug_packages 0
>
> That does not disable debuginfo packages for me (F7 x86_64). This does:
>
> %define debug_package %{nil}
Bah. Wonders of rpm spec conditionals. Is there an %undef? Maybe the
actual rpm wizards involved in setting up the current macro scheme could
say what the preferred method is.
Thanks,
Roland
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