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Bug#657707: [initramfs-tools] modules for initrd are not stripped



On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 13:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> I'm also hitting disk contraints with almost-100M initrds.
> 
> Ben Hutchings, le mar. 05 févr. 2019 01:00:31 +0100, a ecrit:
> > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:34:31 +0100 =?utf-8?q?Micha=C5=82_Miros=C5=82aw?= <mirq-boogs@rere.qmqm.pl> wrote:
> > > Please add an option (possibly defaulted to on) to strip kernel modules and 
> > > binaries put in initrd. When using kernel with debugging enables the 
> > > unstripped modules are available in /lib/modules. Unneeded copy of the symbols 
> > > in initrd image take over 80% of its size.
> > [...]
> 
> FTR, plain strip shouldn't be used as such,
> 
> strip --strip-unneeded
> 
> is needed instead, to avoid breaking loading the modules.

strip breaks module signatures.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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