Re: rpmbuild generates strange results on RHEL5

[Erez Zilber <erezz voltaire com>]

Is this a feature that exists only in RedHat? I never saw that on SLES 9
& 10. Anyway, your answer helped me and I found the problem in my spec file.

Thanks,
Erez

Valery Reznic wrote:
> Good day, Erez.
>
> When you build rpm actually two rpms are built:
> first - the "normal" one and then debug rpm.
> It's looks like, that for some reason file with debug
> rpm got the same name as the "normal" one, so debug
> rpm overwrite it.
>
> I think in your spec file/rpmbuild switches you
> incorrectly specify name for the .rpm 
>
> Valery.
>
> --- Erez Zilber <erezz voltaire com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to build a binary rpm from a src rpm on
>> RHEL5. Something goes wrong:
>>
>> While building it, it says something like:
>>
>> + /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh
>> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/iscsi-initiator-utils-2.0
>> extracting debug info from
>> /var/tmp/iscsi-initiator-utils/sbin/iscsiadm
>> extracting debug info from
>> /var/tmp/iscsi-initiator-utils/sbin/iscsi-iname
>> extracting debug info from
>> /var/tmp/iscsi-initiator-utils/sbin/iscsid
>> extracting debug info from
>> /var/tmp/iscsi-initiator-utils/sbin/iscsistart
>> cpio: iscsi-initiator-utils-2.0/usr/<built-in>: No
>> such file or directory
>> 882 blocks
>>
>> I don't know if it means something bad...
>>
>> The real problem is that it adds a -debuginfo
>> extension to the package name and if I install it
>> and run rpm -ql <package name>, I see that it
>> contains source files (that should not have been
>> there) and some files that should have been there
>> but they have a ".debug" extension and they are
>> installed to /usr/lib/debug/sbin. I don't see the
>> files that I expected to see getting installed.
>>
>> -- 
>>
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