Re: rpm vs --compress-debug-sections=zlib

2016-11-14 Thread Vít Ondruch
As a follow up, I opened ticket to add compressed debug section support to RPM [1] and asked Ruby upstream to make this flag configurable [2]. Vít [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1394759 [2] https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12934 Dne 10.11.2016 v 16:25 Vít Ondruch napsal(a

Re: rpm vs --compress-debug-sections=zlib

2016-11-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Tom Hughes wrote: > I'd say remove it - compressing the debug sections is horrible because > it forces anything that wants to access the debug data to load it all in > and decompress it rather than just reading what it needs. In addition, it actually increases download sizes because RPMs and live

Re: rpm vs --compress-debug-sections=zlib

2016-11-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/11/16 15:25, Vít Ondruch wrote: This was apparently introduced by upstream commit [2], which adds "--compress-debug-sections=zlib" as one of linker options. What I actually don't understand what are the implications of this. * It seems that RPM cannot handle the compressed debug info prop