Re: How are debuginfo packages generated?

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 10:48 PM Pavel Raiskup <praiskup(at)redhat(dot)com> wrote:

> On Saturday, January 6, 2018 6:52:12 AM CET Daniel Farina wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 9:50 PM Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On 6 January 2018 at 06:30, Daniel Farina <daniel(at)citusdata(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> For quite some time, I've been building lightly modified PGDG
> packages,
> > >> but I have never figured how PGDG's yum repo gets debuginfo packages.
> When
> > >> I have built them, unless I hack up the spec file to have
> "%debug_package"
> > >> I do not get such a debuginfo package. Clearly, that is not how the
> spec
> > >> files work as-is in pgrpms.
> > >>
> > >
> > > How do you invoke rpmbuild?
> > >
> >
> > Via make nopreprpm10.
>
> I've never heard about nopreprpm10, but it is more important to say where
> you build the package because debuginfo generator is tightly dependant on
> the _setup_ in packages like 'rpm', 'redhat-rpm-config', etc.
>
> Have a look at `rpm --eval %debug_package` output to see what happens
> there, and to see why it is needed. Then, study your system/user rpm
> macros.
> On my system (Fedora 27 x86_64), there's is (in
> /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros):
>

Seems to me _enable_debug_packages is not "1" on Amazon Linux, nor is that
hook in in /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros, though that can be from simple
divergence of sorts. I also have a Fedora 27 to compare to. I wonder how
the PGDG repository did this on the older Amazon Linux it supported? Did it?

I'll bark up that tree for a while. Thanks.