Minimal GDB in buildroot
Summary
Create gdb-minimal
package (without XML support, Python support, Syntax Highlight and such) and switch to it in buildroot.
Owner
- Name: Igor Gnatenko, Sergio Durigan Junior
- Email: ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org, sergiodj@sergiodj.net
- Release notes owner:
Current status
Detailed Description
Create subpackage in gdb
source package called gdb-minimal
that will contain 2 files:
/usr/bin/gdb.minimal
— GDB executable built without optional unneeded features/usr/bin/gdb-add-index
— Executable script shared with gdb-headless package (modified to fallback to gdb.minimal if exists)
debuginfo code in RPM needs just gdb-add-index and that one doesn't need any syntax highlight or python plugins to work.
As of Apr 26, following packages would disappear from buildroot:
boost-regex-1.69.0-6.fc30.x86_64 ctags-5.8-25.fc30.x86_64 gdbm-libs-1:1.18-4.fc30.x86_64 libbabeltrace-1.5.6-2.fc30.x86_64 libicu-63.1-2.fc30.x86_64 libipt-2.0-2.fc30.x86_64 python-pip-wheel-19.0.3-1.fc31.noarch python-setuptools-wheel-40.8.0-1.fc30.noarch python3-3.7.3-2.fc31.x86_64 python3-libs-3.7.3-2.fc31.x86_64 python3-pip-19.0.3-1.fc31.noarch python3-setuptools-40.8.0-1.fc30.noarch source-highlight-3.1.8-24.fc31.x86_64 sqlite-libs-3.27.2-3.fc31.x86_64
Benefit to Fedora
- Python 3 will disappear from buildroot (yes, it was there just because of GDB)
- RPM download size for buildroot preparation will go down from 77M to 54M
- installed buildroot size will go down from 339M to 249M
Scope
- Proposal owners: Create a subpackage in gdb, Add
Suggests: gdb-minimal
into rpm-build - Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Release engineering: #8311 (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed)
- List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
Upgrade/compatibility impact
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
How To Test
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
User Experience
Python 3 will disappear from buildroot, but nobody should have ever relied on it since we have guidelines about that for long time: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#buildrequires
Dependencies
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
- Blocks product? product
Documentation
N/A (not a System Wide Change)