[TriLUG] Red Hat kernel challenge

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 20:13, Matt Matthews wrote:
> On 26 Feb 2003 18:11:39 -0500 Jeremy Katz <katzj at linuxpower.org> wrote:
> > Add --define "debug_package %{nil}" to your rpmbuild command line (or
> > change the spec file to have "%define debug_package %{nil}" or add that
> > to your ~/.rpmmacros)
> 
> Ok. Thanks. I'll be coming back to bug you Jeremy, if this doesn't work. ;^)
> 
> Will this consistently be a problem going forward from here? That is, will 
> all older SRPMs be b0rken by the change in RPM utils?

Most packages work just fine with debuginfo.  The kernel (and X and a
few others) are just special cases.

The thing that causes more packages to be broken is the error on missing
files, which is there to keep you from updating and having new files
that you don't know about or the like (it's been very useful for that :)

Cheers,

Jeremy