Re: how to turn off building of debug packages?

[Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc doink com>]

On 4 January 2007 at 7:19, Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu> wrote:

> Kevin Cosgrove wrote: 
> > I thought that defining %__debug_package and/or %_enable_debug_packages
> > to 0 (zero) or %nil in ~/.rpmmacros would stop the building of debug
> > packages.  It doesn't do that with rpm 4.4.6 as built by Mandriva for
> > Mandriva 2007.0.  How can I stop the building of debug packages?
> 
> close, instead of setting to 0, set to %{nil}, e.g.,
> %define debug_package %{nil}

Aha!  My issue was that I was defining _debug_package when
debug_package is the right variable. %debug_package %{nil} in
~/.rpmmacros works nicely.

Thanks!
 
--
Kevin