rpmbuild broken

[George Garvey]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:34:34PM -0800, Christopher McCrory wrote:
> Hello...
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 12:56, George Garvey wrote:
> >    After the last update from testing, rpmbuild broke. rpm-4.2.2-0.7.
> > python-2.3.3-1. I've tried going backwards with a few packages, and nothing
> > seems to make a difference. Don't know enough about rpm to do much
> > diagnosis.
> >    Through -bi is okay. With -ba, on very rare occasions finishes,
> > sometimes hangs, usually segfaults. It appears to be having problems with
> > the debug info. I don't know how to turn off debuginfo processing, which is
> > where I suspect the problem is.
> 
> in:
> ~/.rpmmacros
> add:
> %debug_package  %{nil}

	Thank you very much. I did this, and rpmbuild finishes now. This looks
like where the problem is, then.
	On a separate note, where is this documented? Just looked through what
comes with rpm, and only see it mentioned in CHANGES.