Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754852Ab2K3Iaf (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 03:30:35 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:45702 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753978Ab2K3Iad (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 03:30:33 -0500 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:30:26 -0800 From: Jonathan Nieder To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Ben Hutchings , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Michal Marek , Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski Subject: Re: [PATCH 036/270] kbuild: Do not package /boot and /lib in make tar-pkg Message-ID: <20121130083026.GE28232@elie.Belkin> References: <1353949160-26803-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> <1353949160-26803-37-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> <1353983187.4266.40.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> <20121130013843.GB13478@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121130013843.GB13478@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21+51 (9e756d1adb76) (2011-07-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1435 Lines: 33 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 >>> Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings >>> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek >>> [ 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 >> >> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/