Massive size increases in certain packages

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu May 17 20:35:39 UTC 2007


Orion Poplawski (orion at cora.nwra.com) said: 
> I just got a bug report on python-numarray 
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240289) indicating 
> that the size of the installed package has increased from around 6.7MB 
> in FC6 (1.5.2-1.fc6) to around 56MB currently (1.5.2-2.fc7).  Now, the 
> only this that was done was to rebuild the package for python 2.5 back 
> in December.
> 
> If I rebuild the package now the size is back to "normal".  The 
> differences are in the size of the shared libraries:

Do you turn off debug packages?

Bill




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