From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:22:33 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] toolchain-external: fix potential entire root filesystem removal In-Reply-To: <87k2edeay4.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1473929908-25697-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <87k2edeay4.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20160915212233.6ed8f466@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:04:03 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > > When such conditions are met, Buildroot will run "rm -rf /*" due to > > TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR being empty. > > > This bug does not exist in 2016.05, and appeared in 2016.08 due to > > commit a0aa7e0e1750f6ace2879ea8adb1425a41431b79. > > Gaah - Committed, thanks! I hope you did some good review on it. The last patches touching this have seen how catastrophic "apparently good looking" patches can be. > I'll put out a 2016.08.1 release with this Saturday or Sunday. Anything > else that should be included in this bugfix release? Not that I can remember, though Arnout gave some suggestions already. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com