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Message-ID: <1353983187.4266.40.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:26:27 +0000
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 036/270] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make
tar-pkg
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 14:55 -0200, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> 3.5.7u1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
>
> commit fe04ddf7c2910362f3817c8156e41cbd6c0ee35d upstream.
>
> 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.
>
> Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
> Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
> [ herton: dropped unrelated changes to arch/x86/Makefile and
> scripts/Makefile.fwinst, which don't apply anyway on 3.5, see commit
> 3ce9e53e788881da0d5f3912f80e0dd6b501f304 upstream ]
> Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
This is missing from 3.4.
Ben.
> ---
> scripts/package/buildtar | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/package/buildtar b/scripts/package/buildtar
> index 8a7b155..d0d748e 100644
> --- a/scripts/package/buildtar
> +++ b/scripts/package/buildtar
> @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ esac
> if tar --owner=root --group=root --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> opts="--owner=root --group=root"
> fi
> - tar cf - . $opts | ${compress} > "${tarball}${file_ext}"
> + tar cf - boot/* lib/* $opts | ${compress} > "${tarball}${file_ext}"
> )
>
> echo "Tarball successfully created in ${tarball}${file_ext}"
--
Ben Hutchings
Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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