linux-kernel - Re: make tar*-pkg considered dangerous

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Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:43:45 +0200
From:	Zdenek Kaspar <zkaspar82@...il.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: make tar*-pkg considered dangerous

On 09/12/2012 05:16 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We've had some incidents with people destroying Fedore 17 installs
> (to the point of reinstall) by installing a kernel tarball generated with 
> make tar*-pkg
> 
> The problem is that the tarball includes /lib/{modules,firmware},
> but on FC17 /lib is a symlink. tar when it unpacks the tarball
> replaces the symlink with the directory. So they end up
> with a /lib which only contains the new kernel files, but nothing else,
> 
> And then the system doesn't boot anymore.
> 
> I'm not sure there is a good fix for this. I don't know of a way to
> convince tar to not do that. And putting everything into /usr 
> would be very incompatible.
> 
> Disable these make targets or add warnings?  If disabling people should
> use rpms or dpkgs instead?
> 
> -Andi
> 

I dont use the dpkg/rpm variants myself, but unpack with -h should be
enough?

HTH, Z.
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