Re: [ 074/147] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in maketar-pkg

[Ben Hutchings]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 01:22:11PM -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 03:36:47PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
> > [bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop redundant changes]
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  scripts/Makefile.fwinst  |    4 ++--
> >  scripts/package/buildtar |    2 +-
> >  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.fwinst b/scripts/Makefile.fwinst
> > index 4d908d1..c3f69ae 100644
> > --- a/scripts/Makefile.fwinst
> > +++ b/scripts/Makefile.fwinst
> > @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ quiet_cmd_install = INSTALL $(subst $(srctree)/,,$@)
> >  $(installed-fw-dirs):
> >  	$(call cmd,mkdir)
> >  
> > -$(installed-fw): $(INSTALL_FW_PATH)/%: $(obj)/% | $(INSTALL_FW_PATH)/$$(dir %)
> > +$(installed-fw): $(INSTALL_FW_PATH)/%: $(obj)/% | $$(dir $(INSTALL_FW_PATH)/%)
> >  	$(call cmd,install)
> 
> Pulling Linus tree today, I noticed commit
> 3ce9e53e788881da0d5f3912f80e0dd6b501f304 ("kbuild: Fix accidental revert
> in commit fe04ddf"). This change to Makefile.fwinst is unrelated and
> shouldn't be applied. This hunk was suspicious, could be dropped if not
> too late. Otherwise, just picking 3ce9e53e7 later would be fine as well.
 
I saw that on the list and folded it into the version that went into
in 3.2.32.  (Which is tagged in my own repo, but Greg hasn't yet
pulled and released it.)

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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