Re: Removing .tmp_versions considered harmful

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello, Sam!

How about following patch?  Something needs to be done before 2.6.17.
Complaints about .tmp_versions are almost in every list about wireless
drivers I'm subscribed to.

I'm not asking to keep *.mod files, just please keep the .tmp_versions
directory.

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Remove *.mod files but not .tmp_versions for external builds

From: Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx>

When "make install" is run as root, .tmp_versions is re-created and
becomes owned by root.  Subsequent "make" run by user fails because
.tmp_versions cannot be removed.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx>
---

 Makefile |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a940eae..6d7db09 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ # We are always building modules
 KBUILD_MODULES := 1
 PHONY += crmodverdir
 crmodverdir:
-	$(Q)rm -rf $(MODVERDIR)
+	$(Q)rm -f $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod
 	$(Q)mkdir -p $(MODVERDIR)
 
 PHONY += $(objtree)/Module.symvers



-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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