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Bug 1719837

Summary: Request to add a note merging stage to the post-link process
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Nick Clifton <nickc>
Component: rpmAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Luca Berton <lberton>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 8.1CC: lberton, mjw, pmatilai
Target Milestone: rcFlags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Target Release: 8.0   
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OS: Linux   
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Description Nick Clifton 2019-06-12 16:13:25 UTC 
Description of problem:

  With the introduction of the annobin gcc plugin to the build process,
  built binary files have become larger.  Sometimes significantly so.
  This is a request to add a new step to the post-link process performed
  by rpmbuild, to run the objcopy program with the --merge-notes option
  specified.  This will reduce the size of the annobin notes in binary 
  files, thus alleviating the size growth.
Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2019-06-14 08:13:19 UTC 
Things like this generally need to be done in Fedora first.
Comment 3 Nick Clifton 2019-06-14 15:11:48 UTC 
(In reply to Panu Matilainen from comment #2)
> Things like this generally need to be done in Fedora first.

OK, in which case I have filed a Fedora rawhide bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1720700
Comment 4 Panu Matilainen 2019-09-17 08:05:39 UTC 
Accepted upstream: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/751
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 16:51:12 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:1835