From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757187Ab2KZSQE (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:16:04 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:47168 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756340Ab2KZRCB (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:02:01 -0500 From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Michal Marek , Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski Subject: [PATCH 036/270] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:55:26 -0200 Message-Id: <1353949160-26803-37-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 In-Reply-To: <1353949160-26803-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> References: <1353949160-26803-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.5.7u1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Michal Marek 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 Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Michal Marek [ 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 --- 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}" -- 1.7.9.5