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authorMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2012-09-25 16:03:03 +0200
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2012-09-27 16:26:19 +0200
commitfe04ddf7c2910362f3817c8156e41cbd6c0ee35d (patch)
treec760dd345cdc0ac7add2b541ae642b1ef496c0f5 /scripts/package
parent24cc7fb69a5b5edfdff1d38c6a213d6a33648829 (diff)
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kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg
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> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/package')
-rw-r--r--scripts/package/buildtar2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/package/buildtar b/scripts/package/buildtar
index 8a7b15598ea9..d0d748e72915 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}"