linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg

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Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:08:23 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	andi@...stfloor.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ben@...adent.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:17:25AM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> There were reports of users destroying their Fedora installs by a kernel
> tarball that replaces the /lib -> /usr/lib symlink. Let's remove the
> toplevel directories from the tarball to prevent this from happening.

Looks good to me.

Please also submit to stable and all the longterms.

-Andi
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