Hi, > 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. Thank you Filipe and Dag for your answers. I already have installed the redhat-rpm-config package, but nonetheless you suggested the right solution: I disabled the -debuginfo package creation via %debug_package %{nil}. I did not think that il was the macro creating the "-debug" package that strips the libraries. Thanks Luigi