On 08/19/2017 05:31 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi Laura, > > Sorry for the late reply. > I am currently on vacation with limited internet access. > Back in 1.5 weeks. > No worries, I just got back from a few days of PTO and flock is next week so any work will probably not happen for a while. > 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. > Thanks! > Cheers, > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
