On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Satish Balay wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>
> > Am Do, den 16.09.2004 schrieb Satish Balay um 16:51:
> >
> > > I know that the components/*.so files are the ones that are abnormally
> > > big. But I don't know why user compiled mozilla rpms get that way.
> >
> > > Satish
> >
> > The debug information included in the main rpm and not excluded to a
> > separate rpm?
> >
> > mozilla-debuginfo-1.7.2-0.3.0.i386.rpm 07-Sep-2004
> > 21:29 56.2M
> >
> > You see how large alone debuginfo is for mozilla.
>
> Hm.. I use the following in ~/.rpmmacros - so debug stuff doesn't get generated
> %debug_package %{nil}
>
> I thought this should prevent the debug symbols going anywhere
> (including the .rpm file). I guess I was wrong.
>
> -bash-2.05b$ ls -l libgklayout.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 test test 69808062 Sep 16 10:20 libgklayout.so
> -bash-2.05b$ strip libgklayout.so
> -bash-2.05b$ ls -l libgklayout.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 test test 5750012 Sep 16 10:20 libgklayout.so
>
> I'll try a --rebuild without that..
Ok '%debug_package %{nil}' was the culprit. rebuilding without it gives
sane sizes..
-bash-2.05b$ ls -l mozilla-1.7.3-0.1.* mozilla-debuginfo-1.7.3-0.1.1.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 82646274 Sep 15 15:40 mozilla-1.7.3-0.1.0.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 9354308 Sep 16 11:30 mozilla-1.7.3-0.1.1.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 90738406 Sep 16 11:32 mozilla-debuginfo-1.7.3-0.1.1.i386.rpm
Satish
