[PATCH] rpm-pkg: Include symvers in kernel package

[PATCH] rpm-pkg: Include symvers in kernel package

[Tzafrir Cohen]

This change adds an extra file to the generated kernel rpm package:
symvers.gz under the modules directory.

With that extra file, rpm-build on some systems (specifically many
systems based on Centos >= 8) can create better dependencies when
it builds binary modules packages using weak-modules.

Normally it creates dependencies of type:

  kmod(foo.ko)

but with the symver information available, it will create extra
dependencies of the sort of:

  kernel(foo_sym_bol) = 0x112233445566

And therefore if a binary kernel module was built with that specific
kernel, the package manager can check if another kernel provides
foo_sym_bol and of the same version. This is similar to the tests
that The weak-modules script runs at run time.

Using gzip explicitly as with Centos 8 only symvers.gz is tested for.
See /usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/kabi.attr . Centos 9 and 10 also tests for
symvers.xz .

Signed-off-by: Tzafrir Cohen <nvidia@cohens.org.il>
---
 scripts/package/kernel.spec | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/package/kernel.spec b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
index ac3e5ac01d8a..06a792731282 100644
--- a/scripts/package/kernel.spec
+++ b/scripts/package/kernel.spec
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ cp $(%{make} %{makeflags} -s image_name) %{buildroot}/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEAS
 %{make} %{makeflags} INSTALL_HDR_PATH=%{buildroot}/usr headers_install
 cp System.map %{buildroot}/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}
 cp .config %{buildroot}/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}/config
+%{__gzip} -n -9 <Module.symvers > %{buildroot}/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}/symvers.gz
 if %{make} %{makeflags} run-command KBUILD_RUN_COMMAND='test -d ${srctree}/arch/${SRCARCH}/boot/dts' 2>/dev/null; then
 	%{make} %{makeflags} INSTALL_DTBS_PATH=%{buildroot}/lib/modules/%{KERNELRELEASE}/dtb dtbs_install
 fi
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