[gentoo-dev] binary packages and striping
Okay, this is a bit anticipated by my blog post and by what I've been doing tonight instead of sleeping :P Basically I'm trying to get cleaned up what I have in /usr/lib/debug when using splitdebug, getting rid of stuff that gets stripped there... mostly it's because of errors in packages or in portage, but there is stuff that is not depending on either of them, and it's the case of binary packages for instance. skype, blackdown-jdk, rar, opera, openoffice-bin, they are all stripped by upstream, but passes through portage's prepstrip, so they get stripped again and the missing debug info is tried to be copied in /usr/lib/debug. One alternative is to add nostrip to the restrict of those packages, so that prepallstrip is skipped and extra files are not created. That is what I've done with emul-x86-* packages and mplayer-bin, but I'm not 100% sure how it is the idea for the other binary proprietary stuff. I hope we can agree on something that allows to have a better experience with the new features of portage 2.1 :) -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE pgpF4Zmy2dUd0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] Re: binary packages and striping
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > skype, blackdown-jdk, rar, opera, openoffice-bin, they are all stripped by > upstream, but passes through portage's prepstrip, so they get stripped > again and the missing debug info is tried to be copied in /usr/lib/debug. Might want to skip stripping gentoo-sources too ;) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
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Re: [gentoo-dev] binary packages and striping
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:42, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > One alternative is to add nostrip to the restrict of those packages, so > that prepallstrip is skipped and extra files are not created. > That is what I've done with emul-x86-* packages and mplayer-bin, but I'm > not 100% sure how it is the idea for the other binary proprietary stuff. this is kind of a pita in terms of maintenance and imo a hack ... why not just have the splitelf code skip stripped binaries -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: binary packages and striping
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:59, MIkey wrote: > Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > skype, blackdown-jdk, rar, opera, openoffice-bin, they are all stripped > > by upstream, but passes through portage's prepstrip, so they get stripped > > again and the missing debug info is tried to be copied in /usr/lib/debug. > > Might want to skip stripping gentoo-sources too ;) there's nothing in gentoo-sources to strip -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
