Hi, On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:35, Luigi Iotti<centos1 at iotti.biz> wrote: > I usually rebuild some CentOS rpm packges with some changes I need. > I noticed that I obtain slightly larger packages than the ones found in the > centOS distribution, even if I rebuild a source rpm without changing > anything. > I looked in it, and it turned out that my shared libraries are not stripped, > where the ones found in your packages are. If you install the "redhat-rpm-config" package the binaries/libraries will be stripped and the stripped debug information will be put on a "-debuginfo" RPM, this will be done automatically for you. I suggest you install that RPM instead of modifying /etc/rpm/macros on your own. HTH, Filipe