Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Dec 2012 12:17:24 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 036/270] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg |
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:19:49AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 17:38 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 02:26:27AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 14:55 -0200, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: > > > > 3.5.7u1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > > > > > From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> > > > > > > > > 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 <andi@firstfloor.org> > > > > Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> > > > > Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> > > > > [ 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 <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> > > > > > > This is missing from 3.4. > > > > I don't think it is needed, as 3ce9e53e788881da0d5f3912f80e0dd6b501f304 > > didn't go into 3.4, so all should be good for now. > > No, 3ce9e53e788881da0d5f3912f80e0dd6b501f304 was later and reverted > unintended changes in fe04ddf7c2910362f3817c8156e41cbd6c0ee35d. You > should probably combine the two. > > See these stable commits: > > 3.2: 0767530 kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg > 3.6: 4bb50fa kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg > 3.6: 0a7f602 kbuild: Fix accidental revert in commit fe04ddf
Ah, thanks, that makes more sense, I think I have it straightened out now.
greg k-h
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