How to get rid of debuginfo packages

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:05:50PM -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> > I am getting annoyed by rpm building debuginfo packages
> > alongside the main package.  I have no use for them.
> > How to get rid of them?
> add:
> %debug_package %{nil}
> to your ~/.rpmmacros file.

However, this will (generally) make your resulting rpms bigger -- sometimes
significantly bigger. For example, Firefox goes from 8MB to 80.

I'd suggest building the debuginfo RPMs and deleting them if you don't want
them.

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