what does find-debuginfo.sh in rpmbuild do? how can I get rid of it?

Question

I have two boxes that I'm using to build a source rpm. One of them runs:

/usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/name-of-package

which adds three name.debug files to the RPM_BUID_ROOT.

the other build box does not run find-debuginfo.sh and does not generate these files.

• What does find-debuginfo.sh do?
• what causes it to run?
• how can I make it not run?

Severson

Answer 1

Use rpm macro magic to disable building of the debug package (place this somewhere in the spec file):

%define  debug_package %{nil}

I don't know why one of your boxes builds it and the other does not.

Yolandoyolane

likely different versions of rpm on these boxes. – Papyrology

Answer 2

find-debuginfo.sh separates the dwarf debuginfo from main binaries/libraries into separate files, which can be packaged into separate FOO-debuginfo subrpms. That way, a user not interested in debugging doesn't have to install the -debuginfo and thus save disk space.

Mullens