Description of problem: When redhat-rpm-config is installed, creation of debuginfo packages is automatically enabled, but this only works as expected if eu-strip is available, but it isn't always since it's in the elfutils package which isn't currently required, nor by rpm-build (see bug #111363 WONTFIX) nor redhat-rpm-config, but I think it should. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-rpm-config-8.0.31-1 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install a minimal Fedora Core system 2. Install rpm-build, redhat-rpm-config and their dependencies 3. Rebuild a package Actual results: The resulting package doesn't get all its libraries stripped properly and symbols moved to the debuginfo package. Expected results: The package should contains stripped files with symbols moved to the debuginfo package. Additional info: AFAICT, and having seen Jeff Johnson's answer to bug #111363 the correct solution seems to either add "Requires: elfutils" or "Requires: /usr/bin/eu-strip" to this package.
Although elfutils is needed in order to use the debuginfo feature, it isn't required for basic use of redhat-rpm-config, so it doesn't make sense to add a requirement. I _am_ adding elfutils to comps so that it installs along with redhat-rpm-config by default. That should have the same result for users.
Unfortunately, this won't fix the problem for people like me who build packages in minimal chroots and not actual installed systems. IMHO, eu-strip is _required_ in order to get the proper redhat-rpm-config behavior, thus should be a _requirement_ of redhat-rpm-config even though this isn't a typical shared library or mandatory executable problem. Otherwise, why is eu-strip used instead of the regular strip in the debuginfo woodoo macros? Maybe changing that would be another option, although I doubt eu-strip wasn't explicitely used for a good reason.... but who knows (not me!).
Matthias: This is exactly a case of what works for Red Hat per-venodr config won't possibly work for everyone. IMHO, you should use redhat-rpm-config as template to create (and encapsulate) your own build configuration. Per-vendor config has exsisted for quite some time now, and it's nearly impossible to pretend that "One config for all." makes any sense any more. And eu-strip is used rather than strip from binutils because there is some deep ELF voo-doo that eu-strip gets right, but binutils strip does not. That was an issue on a RHL 9 time frame, perhaps has changed, noone has looked. Adding a Requires: elfutils serves little purpose (imho) because the underlying need, sufficiently correct behavior from strip to build packages reproducibly, is essentially and intrinsically an attribute of the toolchain itself, not of packages that happen to contain scripts that invoke elements of a tool chain that needs to be considered and chosen carefully by the build master.