[WBEL-users] debuginfo

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Saturday 23 July 2005 08:09 pm, Thomas E Dukes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been 'rolling my own' rpm packages so to speak.  I noticed many of
> the srpm's I have built have debuginfo rpms as well.  What are these?
> Should they be installed?
>
> TIA
>
rpmbuild  by defualt strips the debugging info from the binaries.  this makes 
for a smaller faster binary.  debuginfo packages are only needed to be 
installed if you need to debug a packages that is acting up.  the striped 
info is put into the debuginfo package

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Regards


Dennis Gilmore  RHCE
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