Am Sunday 04 June 2006 16:36 schrieb Pascal Bleser: > Andreas Hanke wrote: > .... > > > No, really: Yesterday I had a closer look at what is currently there in > > the build service just to find out that the amarok package from there is > > 19 MB compressed and ca. 100 MB on disk after installation. Guess why, > > it is compiled with full debug information and not stripped. It's close > > to ridiculous that people are confusing them with bugfix updates. > > That's going to be "fixed" soon. > > The "problem" in the Build Service wrt that is that the spec files are > made portable across various distributions (SL Factory 10.1, 10.0, 9.3; > Fedora Core 5; Mandriva) and that we're currently in a phase where a lot > of testing happens, and investigations on how to achieve that. > > Normally, from SUSE 9.3 on, the debug symbols of RPM packages are > removed and stripped by using the %debug_package macro, which > automagically creates a -debuginfo package (that hols the debugging > symbols).
you can use the same macro in the build service as well. There is just no nice button to use it for now. > It's not totally trivial atm to apply that macro in a portable manner > across distributions, but the problem is being tackled and a portable > solution will be provided soon. right. > That's the reason why the spec files in the Build Service currently > don't use the %debug_package macro and, hence, include debug symbols in > the binaries. but we removed the "-g" default meanwhile. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
