Re: quick FAQ

[Chris Edillon <jce zot com>]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 17:04 -0500, Joe Landman wrote:

> How do I stop rpmbuild from stripping a binary file?  I am building a 
> kernel module to put into an RPM.  The module works fine and is 
> insmod'able outside of the rpm package.  During packaging it appears to 
> be stripped of its symbols which leads to a module format error when 
> insmod'ing it.  The module in the build tree is fine, the one the binary 
>   rpm deposits into the requisite location on the machine is not.

  i did this once, and i think i added the following to the
spec file:

%define __spec_install_post %{nil}

i'm not at work so i can't check my spec file, though.  :)

hth,
 chris