diff size of the rpm ?

[Maaz]

Hi Experts

I downloaded the src.rpm from wine's website(winehq)
#rpmbuild -rebuild wine*.src.rpm; cd /usr/redhat/RPMS/i386
# du -h wine-20050419-1wbel3winehq.i386.rpm
22M wine-20050419-1wbel3winehq.i386.rpm


and following i386.rpm i have downloaded from wine's website.
# du -h wine-20050419-1wbel3winehq.i386.rpm
15M wine-20050419-1wbel3winehq.i386.rpm

I m amazed .... why is the diff b/w the size of the readymade binary, and the
binary i have made via rpmbuild ? one is of 22M and the other is of 15M ...
its a big diff.

Regards
Maaz

[Stuart Browne · Accepted solution]

Different library versions.. different options included.. possibly some more documentation included. It's not all that suprising.

You'd have to walk through the specfile and the config.status to find out the precise differences.

[Maaz]

Thanks Dear Stuart
plz le me know where i can find the "specfile" and "config.status" file ?

Regards
Maaz

[Gopi Sekar]

spec files are generally located in /usr/redhat/SPECS

[Stuart Browne]

You won't be left with a spec file or the config.status if you do 'rpmbuild --rebuild ..', as they are removed afterwards.

If you really want to look at them, do the following:

rpm -ivh wine*.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPEC

there will be a 'wine.spec'. From here do:

rpmbuild -ba wine.spec

Once that completes, you'll have RPMS in '/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/', and you'll have the built source in '/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/wine*', including the config information (which was generated by the 'configure' command during the build).

[Maaz]

Thanks Dear Gopi Sekar for the support.

And Thanks Dear Stuart Browne for the Detailed, and continous reply/support.

Regards
Maaz