From patchwork Thu Nov 15 05:48:10 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [3.5.yuz, extended, stable] Patch "kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg" has been added to staging queue From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski X-Patchwork-Id: 199150 Message-Id: <1352958490-15593-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> To: Michal Marek Cc: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Andi Kleen Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:48:10 -0200 This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.yuz extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.5.yuz tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Herton ------ >From 94c67cd32d2de6b89361825992a6476087c35663 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Marek Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:03:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg 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(-) -- 1.7.9.5 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}"