rpmbuild: how to skip generation of "debuginfo" packages (without change SPEC file ; neither .rpmmacros)

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Destroyica picture Destroyica · May 2, 2016 · Viewed 10.1k times · Source

We need to (re)generated third party packages on EL7 but we don't want to change SPEC file as suggested (%define debug_package %{nil} https://www.redhat.com/archives/shrike-list/2003-April/msg00069.html) and neither changing the ~/.rpmmacros file as it is on a shared box for RPM build.

Is there any way to solve this via command line (additional parameter) with rpmbuild?

Answer

Destroyica picture Destroyica · May 8, 2016

After many tests I found the solution. In fact, it is possible to define debug_package outside of the SPEC file, using --define. Which gives:

rpmbuild --define "debug_package %{nil}" -ba SPECS/original.spec

Result is: I don't modify the third party SPEC file and no RPM -debuginfo is generated.

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