From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ben@decadent.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:08:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120926160823.GF16230@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348611445-11501-1-git-send-email-mmarek@suse.cz>
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:17:25AM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> 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.
Looks good to me.
Please also submit to stable and all the longterms.
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-26 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 3:16 make tar*-pkg considered dangerous Andi Kleen
2012-09-12 16:43 ` 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 [this message]
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