Fwd: Re: rawhide report: 20080130 changes

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 01/30/2008 03:54 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 January 2008 03:47:26 pm Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Wednesday 30 January 2008 02:55:08 pm Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 30 January 2008 02:17:17 pm Roland McGrath wrote:
>>>>> Roland, I don't suppose any of the recent changes I seem to recall
>>>>> hearing you were going to make to debuginfo might have anything to do
>>>>> with this...
>>>> Seems unlikely since I haven't actually made any yet.
>>> D'oh, didn't realize that, sorry. Okay, back to the drawing board... :)
>> Chuck figured it out. The output of file 4.23 when looking at unstripped
>> binaries changed, which broke find-debuginfo.sh... :\
> 
> Okay, I should just go home. My head hurts like hell right now, and I can't 
> seem to get anything right... It seems the new file only has issues with .ko 
> files, other binaries it reports on as it always has.
> 

Maybe this is because even after we strip out the debuginfo, file was
reporting "not stripped", so someone decided to override that and always
report them as stripped? I just used eu-unstrip to reassemble a module
with the full debuginfo and file still doesn't say anything about it...