From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: make tar*-pkg considered dangerous
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:16:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120912031646.GV16230@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
Hi,
We've had some incidents with people destroying Fedore 17 installs
(to the point of reinstall) by installing a kernel tarball generated with
make tar*-pkg
The problem is that the tarball includes /lib/{modules,firmware},
but on FC17 /lib is a symlink. tar when it unpacks the tarball
replaces the symlink with the directory. So they end up
with a /lib which only contains the new kernel files, but nothing else,
And then the system doesn't boot anymore.
I'm not sure there is a good fix for this. I don't know of a way to
convince tar to not do that. And putting everything into /usr
would be very incompatible.
Disable these make targets or add warnings? If disabling people should
use rpms or dpkgs instead?
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next reply other threads:[~2012-09-12 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 3:16 Andi Kleen [this message]
2012-09-12 16:43 ` make tar*-pkg considered dangerous Zdenek Kaspar
[not found] ` <20120912161154.GB3289@khazad-dum.debian.net>
2012-09-12 20:39 ` (fwd) " Ben Hutchings
2012-09-19 11:58 ` Thorsten Glaser
2012-09-25 22:17 ` [PATCH] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg Michal Marek
2012-09-26 16:08 ` Andi Kleen
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