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

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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:58:38 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Thorsten Glaser <tg@...bsd.de>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
cc:	pkg-sysvinit-devel@...ts.alioth.debian.org,
	debian-devel@...ts.debian.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: make tar*-pkg considered dangerous

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh dixit:

>From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
>To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org

>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,

Well, this is both a bug in Fedora IMHO, and (objectively) a fault
of the users to not use “tar xzphf” for extracting.

bye,
//mirabilos
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