Changes between Version 37 and Version 38 of RpmHowToPackagers

Timestamp:

Dec 29, 2015, 3:41:53 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

dmik

Comment:

Add Setting up executable compression section

RpmHowToPackagers

@@ -347 +347 @@
 Note that if you don't need any debug info generation at all, simply remove the `%debug_package` macro from your .spec file and debug file generation will be automatically suppressed (all the debug info will be silently discarded from the executable files during the compression phase in such case).
 
+== Setting up executable compression ==
+
+By default, RPM performs compression for the following executable files built by the .spec file before putting them to `.rpm` bundles: `*.exe`, `*.dll` and `*.pyd`. Compression is done using the `lxlite` tool by optimizing LX object layout and discarding debug info. Sometimes it is desirable to change the list of files to be compressed (or to disable compression at all). Here are the examples of how to do it:
+{{{
+# Disable compression completely
+%define _strip_no_compress 1
+
+# Exclude myfile*.dll from the compressed files
+%define _strip_opts --compress -x "myfile*.dll"
+
+# Add *.mymod files to the default list of files to be compressed
+%define _strip_opts --compress -i "*.mymod"
+
+# Compress only *.mymod files (do not compress default extensions at all)
+%define _strip_opts --compress -n "*.mymod"
+}}}
+
 == OS/2 specific notes ==
 While the syntax of .spec files is the same used under Unix, not everything is currently working in the OS/2 port. Also many packages are already built and manually installed: this means RPM is not aware of their presence.