linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 036/270] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg

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Message-ID: <20121130083026.GE28232@elie.Belkin>
Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:30:26 -0800
From:	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>, 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

Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 02:26:27AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 14:55 -0200, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:

>>> 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.
>
> I don't think it is needed, as 3ce9e53e788881da0d5f3912f80e0dd6b501f304
> didn't go into 3.4, so all should be good for now.

The dependency's the other way around.  Herton's comment above means
to say that 3ce9e53 is being squashed in as a fixup.

Thanks,
Jonathan
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