Building a kernel "--without debuginfo" is kind of broken

[Chuck Ebbert]

I got a 160MB kernel package and discovered that the kernel and
modules contained debug info. This seems to fix it, does anyone
see a problem with it?

make -s mrproper
     cp configs/$Config .config

+    %if !%{with_debuginfo}
+    perl -p -i -e 's/^CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y$/# CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is not set/' .config
+    %endif

Arch=`head -1 .config | cut -b 3-`
     echo USING ARCH=$Arch

[Jarod Wilson]

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> I got a 160MB kernel package and discovered that the kernel and
> modules contained debug info. This seems to fix it, does anyone
> see a problem with it?
>  make -s mrproper
>  cp configs/$Config .config
>
> %if !%{with_debuginfo}
>
> perl -p -i -e 's/^CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y$/# CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is not set/' .config
>
> %endif
>
> Arch=`head -1 .config | cut -b 3-`
> echo USING ARCH=$Arch

I believe at one point in the past, debuginfo was still getting 
stripped, just not packaged, with that option. Then things changed 
around a bit, and with that option, stripping didn't happen. The above 
seems like a sane remedy to me.