366065 – new emerge flag to NOT install debug symbols

Bug 366065 - new emerge flag to NOT install debug symbols

Summary: new emerge flag to NOT install debug symbols

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2011-05-05 09:37 UTC by Fab
Modified:	2011-05-05 11:10 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Fab 2011-05-05 09:37:39 UTC

Hi,

I'm using a build farm to create tbz2 packages that I unpack on anothers
systems. I would like to build these packages by default with CFLAGS="-ggdb"
and FEATURES="splitdebug", but I also would like to have a new emerge flag
which would remove these debug files on installation :

 # emerge -k --do-not-install-/usr/lib/debug-files foo_package

This new flag could also be set into EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS.

This would allow me to build packages with debug symbols by default,
but install these symbols only when needed.

For example, today I have a segfault crash with firefox, but if I want
to run into a debug session to report a bug, I must rebuild half of the
system. This flag would allow me to reinstall packages (-k or -K) with debug
symbols easily and quickly.

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-05-05 10:29:18 UTC

use INSTALL_MASK then

Comment 2 Fab 2011-05-05 11:10:48 UTC

ok, i didn't know this variable, thanks.