Hello, this is my first try of building an RPM package, so please be patient. I want to package SUMO (http.//sumo.sf.net/) and succeeded in writing a spec file (attached), placing it into /usr/src/packages/SPECS together with sources in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES and in executing rpmbuild -ba but the resulting RPM is huge because of the generated debug info in the executables. Digging into the macros in /usr/lib/rpm I found out that the %install macro actually should try to strip the executables but it does not in my case (maybe it gets overwritten by some suse_macro?). The system I am working on is openSUSE 10.3. and the (hopefully) relevant part of the rpmbuild output is here: Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.51377 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD + cd sumo-0.9.10 + make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/sumo-0.9.10-build install Making install in src ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/sumo-0.9.10' + RPM_BUILD_ROOT=/var/tmp/sumo-0.9.10-build + export RPM_BUILD_ROOT + test -x /usr/sbin/Check -a 1000 = 0 -o -x /usr/sbin/Check -a '!' -z /var/tmp/sumo-0.9.10-build + echo 'I call /usr/sbin/Check...' I call /usr/sbin/Check... + /usr/sbin/Check Checking permissions and ownerships - using the permissions files /tmp/Check.perms.z14272 setting /var/tmp/sumo-0.9.10-build/ to root:root 0755. (wrong owner/group micha:users) setting /var/tmp/sumo-0.9.10-build/usr to root:root 0755. (wrong owner/group micha:users) + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress + /usr/lib/rpm/brp-symlink Processing files: sumo-0.9.10-1 Finding Provides: /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides sumo Finding Requires: /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires sumo sed: kann /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/sumo.spec nicht lesen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden Finding Supplements: /usr/lib/rpm/find-supplements sumo Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 Requires: libproj libgdal Xerces-c fox14 libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) libFOX-1.4.so.0 libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0) libgdal.so.1 libGL.so.1.2 libGLU.so.1 libm.so.6 libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libproj.so.0 libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1) libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3) libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.1) libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4) libstdc++.so.6 (GLIBCXX_3.4.9) libxerces-c.so.27 Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/sumo-0.9.10-build Wrote: /usr/src/packages/SRPMS/sumo-0.9.10-1.src.rpm Wrote: /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/sumo-0.9.10-1.i586.rpm There is also a spurious error message about sed being unable to find the spec (in german above, it looks inside the SOURCES dir?!) but I don't know whether this is related. Now, what can I do to strip my executables before packaging them? Do I have to call strip by hand or I am just overlooking something? Thanks for your help, Michael