...snip > > > In that case, I think the only viable way to make this work is to > > disable automatic stripping and handle stripping via custom code in > > the ebuild/eclass. > > > might work indeed if we do something like (pseudo-bash) > > if [[ module_sign == yes ]]; then > dostrip -x /lib/modules # to stop portage stripping .ko objects > manual-strip-respecting-features-nostrip -r /lib/modules > sign-all-modules -r /lib/modules > fi > [[ compress_modules == yes ]] && compress-modules -r /lib/modules > > > this will equire eapi-bumping couple of packages > https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/eapi-per-eclass/linux-mod.eclass/6.txt > and restricting linux-mod.eclass to eapi7 or later. > > > started playing with my old code and got blocked right away:
looks like dostrip just creates a list of files/directories to strip and processed at the very end of install phase. so skipping strip and doing manual one might be problematic. internally portage uses estrip https://github.com/gentoo/portage/blob/master/bin/estrip which contains quite a lot of logic and code and I don't think partially re-implementing this in eclass code is appropriate.
