Re: [Rust-users] rust rpm problem

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

On Thursday 24 April 2003 03:09 pm, Depankar Neogi wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael D. Hirsch [mailto:mh...@nu...]
> Sent:	Thu 4/24/2003 2:45 PM
> To:	Depankar Neogi; rus...@li...
> Cc:
> Subject:	Re: [Rust-users] rust rpm problem
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 1. The new file does not work.
> 2. Original - file dhcpd
> dhcpd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically
> linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
>
> # ls -l dhcpd
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1450408 Apr 14 20:25 dhcpd
>
> From rpm -
> $ file dhcpd
> dhcpd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically
> linked (uses shared libs), not stripped $ ls -l dhcpd
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       623186 Apr 23 07:39 dhcpd

That's pretty weird.  I guess my hypothesis was wrong.

Have you looked to see if the file is just being truncated? 

It can't be just the file size--I've used crust (the back-end for rust) for 
much larger files.

Michael