[PATCH] kbuild: Stop including vmlinux.bz2 in the rpm's

From: Zack Rusin
Date: Thu Oct 06 2022 - 10:33:42 EST


From: Zack Rusin <zackr@xxxxxxxxxx>

vmlinux.bz2 was added to the rpm packages in 2009 in the
fc370ecfdb37 ("kbuild: add vmlinux to kernel rpm") but seemingly hasn't
been used since.

Originally this should have been split up in a seperate debugging
package because it massively increases the size of the generated rpm's
e.g. kernel rpm built using binrpm-pkg on Fedora 36 default 5.19.8 kernel
config and localmodconfig is ~255MB with vmlinux.bz2 and only ~65MB
without it.

Make the kernel built rpms about 4x smaller by not including the unused
vmlinux.bz2 in them.

Signed-off-by: Zack Rusin <zackr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
scripts/package/mkspec | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/package/mkspec b/scripts/package/mkspec
index 8fa7c5b8a1a1..af06d03fe7e2 100755
--- a/scripts/package/mkspec
+++ b/scripts/package/mkspec
@@ -97,8 +97,6 @@ $M $MAKE %{?_smp_mflags} INSTALL_MOD_PATH=%{buildroot} modules_install
$MAKE %{?_smp_mflags} INSTALL_HDR_PATH=%{buildroot}/usr headers_install
cp System.map %{buildroot}/boot/System.map-$KERNELRELEASE
cp .config %{buildroot}/boot/config-$KERNELRELEASE
- bzip2 -9 --keep vmlinux
- mv vmlinux.bz2 %{buildroot}/boot/vmlinux-$KERNELRELEASE.bz2
$S$M rm -f %{buildroot}/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/build
$S$M rm -f %{buildroot}/lib/modules/$KERNELRELEASE/source
$S$M mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/src/kernels/$KERNELRELEASE
--
2.34.1