Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:43:45 +0200 | From | Zdenek Kaspar <> | Subject | Re: make tar*-pkg considered dangerous |
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On 09/12/2012 05:16 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > 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 >
I dont use the dpkg/rpm variants myself, but unpack with -h should be enough?
HTH, Z.
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