Hi Laura, Sorry for the late reply. I am currently on vacation with limited internet access. Back in 1.5 weeks. On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 05:12:46PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote: > I started playing around with having RPM automatically generate the > debuginfo subpackages per > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SubpackageAndSourceDebuginfo Thanks for looking at this! > Because the kernel is a continual source of exceptions, the existing > code doesn't handle the case where the debuginfo and file may have > different names. Yes, the kernel spec is "special" in lots of ways :) > The kernel modules are compressed at the install stage so foo.ko > becomes foo.ko.xz. The debuginfo is generated as foo.ko.debug. > The existing code to split debugfiles.list can't detect this so > those files end up as unpackaged. A similar problem happens with > the vmlinux for the main kernel. > > Is this an issue that can reasonably be fixed or worked around to > support the debuginfo subpackages for the kernel? I want to make > sure I'm not digging myself into a hole before I spend more time > on this. In the new code debug files processing is split partly between find-debuginfo.sh (based on the files in the buildsubdir) and rpmbuild post %install (based on the actual %files list). This causes an issue for the current way the kernel compresses the kernel modules, which is ran through __modsign_install_post after the find-debuginfo.sh invocation, but before the %files list is created. I think for the compressed ELF files it might be best if rpm handled this directly. It is somewhat kernel specific, but could be useful in general. But I am not sure yet what the best way to do that in rpm would be. Either you would be able to install ELF files compressed an rpm would just work on compressed ELF files (but this might mean rpm would have to decompress and recompress them). Or there should be some way that you can just install the files normally and then indicate in the %files list that some files should really be compressed on disk (then they would only be compressed at the very end by rpm). I'll file a bug report for that against rpm and will look into it when I return from vacation. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
