Re: [Rust-users] rust rpm problem

[Michael D. H. <mh...@nu...>]

On Thursday 24 April 2003 02:22 pm, Depankar Neogi wrote:
> Hi -
> I am having a weird behavior while trying to create an rpm where for two
> files, the sizes are changing. Even if I moved the files to another dir
> and created the rpm, still the file size changes in the rpm. For example
> -
> The original file size is 1450408 for /usr/sbin/dhcpd.
> The new file size in the rpm is 623186 for /usr/sbin/dhcpd.
>
> When I install the rpm, the file size is 623K though the original was
> 1450K.
>
> If I manually created the rpm, using rpm -bb -r ...., my flle sizes do
> not change and I get the original size.
>
> I would like to use RUST to build my rpms. This is the first time I
> faced such a problem. I have built other rpms and even in this rpm, the
> other file sizes are unchanged.
>
> Any help is appreciated.

Two questions.  First, does the new file still work?

Second, what is the output of "file /usr/sbin/dhcpd"  on the two versions 
of the file?

I think that rpm (or rust, I'm not sure) may be stripping the file to make 
it smaller.  There is probably an option in rpm to turn off that behavior.

Michael