[WBEL-users] debuginfo

[Vincent Raffensberger]

You can disable this in your ~/.rpmmacros file:

$ cat ~/.rpmmacros
%_unpackaged_files_terminate_build    0
%debug_package %{nil}


-----Original Message-----
From: whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org
[mailto:whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Gilmore
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 8:17 AM
To: whitebox-users at beau.org
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] debuginfo

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

--
Regards


Dennis Gilmore  RHCE
Network Manager
Royal Publishing
(309)693-3171 x299
7620 N. Harker Drive
Peoria IL 61615


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