rpmlint help

Eric Tanguy eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr
Mon Oct 31 09:08:08 UTC 2005


Le lundi 31 octobre 2005 à 09:06 +0200, Ville Skyttä a écrit :
> On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 23:06 +0100, Eric Tanguy wrote:
> > Running rmplint against a package i obtain this kind of message :
> > W: package-name unstripped-binary-or-object /path/something.so
> > Someone could explain me what this mean and how to solve it.
> 
> That file has not been stripped of debug symbols, resulting in
> unnecessary disk space usage in the package.  Make sure that you have
> the redhat-rpm-config package installed and your *.so above has the
> execute permissions set at end of %install section; rpmbuild should then
> take care of the stripping and moving the symbols into the -debuginfo
> package for you.
> 
Thanks, the *.so had not the execute permissions set so i tried
something like that : 
chmod 755 /path/*.so
but i'm not sure it's "rpm compliant" maybe a macro ?

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