From: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk(a)redhat.com>
redhat: do not package *.mod.c generated files
As an example, kernel-debuginfo-common.rpm was observed to contain
21865 files, 2274 of them (~10%) are *.mod.c files.
They are packaged because their names are present in some object files,
and rpmbuild (through find-debuginfo.sh, "debugedit -l")
grabs all referenced source files which still exist, and packages them
into debuginfo rpms. Just deleting them before that build stage
allows to avoid it.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk(a)redhat.com>
diff --git a/redhat/kernel.spec.template b/redhat/kernel.spec.template
index blahblah..blahblah 100644
--- a/redhat/kernel.spec.template
+++ b/redhat/kernel.spec.template
@@ -2396,6 +2396,8 @@ BuildKernel() {
# prune junk from kernel-devel
find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/src/kernels -name ".*.cmd" -delete
+ # prune junk from kernel-debuginfo
+ find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/src/kernels -name "*.mod.c" -delete
# Red Hat UEFI Secure Boot CA cert, which can be used to authenticate the kernel
mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/doc/kernel-keys/$KernelVer
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https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2512