On Saturday, January 6, 2018 6:52:12 AM CET Daniel Farina wrote: > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 9:50 PM Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > > On 6 January 2018 at 06:30, Daniel Farina <daniel@citusdata.com> wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> For quite some time, I've been building lightly modified PGDG packages, > >> but I have never figured how PGDG's yum repo gets debuginfo packages. When > >> I have built them, unless I hack up the spec file to have "%debug_package" > >> I do not get such a debuginfo package. Clearly, that is not how the spec > >> files work as-is in pgrpms. > >> > > > > How do you invoke rpmbuild? > > > > Via make nopreprpm10.
I've never heard about nopreprpm10, but it is more important to say where you build the package because debuginfo generator is tightly dependant on the _setup_ in packages like 'rpm', 'redhat-rpm-config', etc.
Have a look at `rpm --eval %debug_package` output to see what happens there, and to see why it is needed. Then, study your system/user rpm macros. On my system (Fedora 27 x86_64), there's is (in /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros):
Seems to me _enable_debug_packages is not "1" on Amazon Linux, nor is that hook in in /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros, though that can be from simple divergence of sorts. I also have a Fedora 27 to compare to. I wonder how the PGDG repository did this on the older Amazon Linux it supported? Did it?