Re: [PATCH 036/270] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in maketar-pkg

[Jonathan Nieder]

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:

>>> 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>
>>> [ 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 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.

The dependency's the other way around.  Herton's comment above means
to say that 3ce9e53 is being squashed in as a fixup.

Thanks,
Jonathan
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