Bug 406001

Summary: rpm-build: strict (build-id) checking in /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh cannot be turned off
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Thierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmentelat>
Component: rpmAssignee: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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default value for strict checking : false none

Description Thierry Parmentelat 2007-11-30 15:51:00 UTC
Description of problem:
rpm-build: strict (build-id) checking in /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh cannot
be turned off

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[f8] /usr/lib/rpm # rpm -qf /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh
rpm-build-4.4.2.2-7.fc8

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
Please see detailed information below

Additional info:

I'm using rpmbuild on a fedora 8 system.
Some of our packages are not yet compliant with the new --build-id ld flag

My understanding is that the find-debuginfo.sh script was designed to have the
strict checking feature turned off by default, and had an option to turn it on.
But unfortunately it reads :

     28 # Barf on missing build IDs.
     29 # XXX temporarily on by default
     30 strict=true
     31

So there does not seem to be a simple way to turn it off, as we would like to,
even temporarily until we get all builds properly fixed (which btw would be
greatly simpler if gcc would understand --build-id)

I would expect, either that the default value would be set to false as the
comment suggests, or to have an option to turn strict checking off so I could use 
%__debug_install_post
to work around this issue

I believe the version of rpm-build that I'm using is the latest one

Thanks

Comment 1 Thierry Parmentelat 2007-11-30 15:51:00 UTC
Created attachment 273941 [details]
default value for strict checking : false

Comment 2 Ville Skyttä 2007-11-30 16:44:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> [f8] /usr/lib/rpm # rpm -qf /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh
> rpm-build-4.4.2.2-7.fc8

rpm-build is a subpackage of rpm, not rpmdevtools -> reassigning.

Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2007-12-03 11:50:17 UTC
Yup, the bits to control build-id behavior through
_missing_build_ids_terminate_build macro never made it to F8. Better late than
never of course...

Comment 4 Thierry Parmentelat 2007-12-03 13:20:25 UTC
Hello

Does this mean that you plan on publishing a fixed version as part of the
standard f8 updates ? If so, what kind of timeframe would that be ?

I'm asking because we're kind of stuck here, and working around this problem by
our own means is likely to involve quite a few uggly and useless tricks ...

Thanks in advance -- Thierry

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 08:46:00 UTC
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