[yocto] How to prevent building -dbg and -doc packages?

[Bryan Evenson]

I'm on poky/dylan-9.0.1.  I'm not using any of the -dbg and the -doc packages and I'd like to clean things up for my build by not building these packages in the first place across the entire system.  I see references in the documentation to these package types, but I haven't found anything about how to keep the system from generating them.

I tried going into meta/conf/bitbake.conf and modifying the PACKAGES variable to look as follows:

PACKAGES = "${PN}-staticdev ${PN}-dev ${PN}-locale ${PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN} ${PN}"

This caused a bunch of packages to get rebuilt and seemed to be working until it got to the libpam package.  Then I got the following errors:

ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_dispatch2
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_pwhistory1
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_access3
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_unix2
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_succeed_if1
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_authsucceed
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_dispatch4
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_access1
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_time1
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_unix3
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_authfail
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_cracklib1
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_access2
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_cracklib2
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_dispatch1
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_dispatch5
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_limits1
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_dispatch3
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_group1
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_unix4
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_access4
ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: libpam-xtests path /work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/packages-split/libpam-xtests/usr/share/Linux-PAM/xtests/.debug/tst-pam_unix1
ERROR: QA run found fatal errors. Please consider fixing them.
ERROR: Function failed: do_package_qa
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /media/sda3/poky/poky-build/tmp/work/arm926ejste-poky-linux-gnueabi/libpam/1.1.6-r2/temp/log.do_package.8163
ERROR: Task 362 (/media/sda3/poky/meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.1.6.bb, do_package) failed with exit code '1'

So either I didn't remove enough from bitbake.conf or there is a better way to do this.  Does anyone know of a good way to avoid building all the -dbg and -doc packages?

Thanks,
Bryan