Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Compress annobin notes (#751)

2019-06-17 Thread nickclifton
Hi Colin, > Can you keep the commit message title to < 80 chars? And move the text from > the PR description into the commit message as well. Sorry about that, I will remember for next time. > Seems OK to me but: why don't the compilers do this by default? Because at the time that the notes

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Compress annobin notes (#751)

2019-06-17 Thread nickclifton
Hi Mark, > I don't think this should be part of add_minidebug (). It is something > that would need to happen even if we don't run add_minidebug (). Also > add_minidebug () runs after stripping/splitting the main ELF file into > a .debug file (which also gets a copy of all notes). > > I noticed

[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Compress annobin notes (#751)

2019-06-14 Thread nickclifton
This is a request to add support for compressing annobin notes found in executable binaries built on Fedora and RHEL systems. The annobin project adds a note section to binary files describing the security hardening features of how they were built. Unfortunately these notes can get quite