For instance when creating a live image that doesn't contain binutils the following scary error message will be shown when installing kernels: E: Could not find 'strip'. You should run /sbin/dracut with '--nostrip'. There is no simple way to run dracut with --nostrip when composing images. There is also no (other) reason to ship binutils on a space constrained live image, so making it a dependency would perhaps not be a good solution. But at the same time it would be nice to have the binaries stripped to reduce the initramfs size on live images too. The default for Fedora could perhaps be changed to not strip binaries. I guess the stripping / debuginfo-separation done by the build process will do that there isn't much left. I don't know how this could be improved, but I propose changing the message to be a FYI instead of an error, something more in style with "I: Skipping program xxx as it cannot be found and is flagged to be optional". dracut-024-1.fc18.x86_64
dracut-024-5.git20121019.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-024-5.git20121019.fc18
For the record: * Fri Oct 19 2012 Harald Hoyer <harald> 024-5.git20121019 - only 'warn' not 'error', if we don't strip the initramfs and now it uses dwarn "Could not find '$p'. Not stripping the initramfs." Thanks.
Package dracut-024-5.git20121019.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing dracut-024-5.git20121019.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-16448/dracut-024-5.git20121019.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
(In reply to comment #3) > Package dracut-024-5.git20121019.fc18: > * should fix your issue, I don't think so, I've just got this error with dracut-024-10.git20121121.fc18
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > Package dracut-024-5.git20121019.fc18: > > * should fix your issue, > > I don't think so, I've just got this error with > dracut-024-10.git20121121.fc18 Huh? There is: - derror "Could not find '$p'. You should run $0 with '--nostrip'." + dwarn "Could not find '$p'. Not stripping the initramfs." ... maybe your kernel was updated prior to dracut in the same transaction.
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > > (In reply to comment #3) > > > Package dracut-024-5.git20121019.fc18: > > > * should fix your issue, > > > > I don't think so, I've just got this error with > > dracut-024-10.git20121121.fc18 > > Huh? There is: > > - derror "Could not find '$p'. You should run $0 with > '--nostrip'." > + dwarn "Could not find '$p'. Not stripping the initramfs." > > ... maybe your kernel was updated prior to dracut in the same transaction. hmmm ... is that possible that I got wrong the point of this report and of the fix? somehow I thought that we should get rid of the error message completely, e.g. by depending on strip, but obviously this is not the case ... sorry for the noise; but not closing this yet because a question creeps into my mind - wouldn't be that nice to make this less confusing for a lame user like me, maybe by rephrasing so that it doesn't look like a serious error but rather one of the expected conditions?
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