Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:16:46 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | make tar*-pkg considered dangerous |
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Hi,
We've had some incidents with people destroying Fedore 17 installs (to the point of reinstall) by installing a kernel tarball generated with make tar*-pkg
The problem is that the tarball includes /lib/{modules,firmware}, but on FC17 /lib is a symlink. tar when it unpacks the tarball replaces the symlink with the directory. So they end up with a /lib which only contains the new kernel files, but nothing else,
And then the system doesn't boot anymore.
I'm not sure there is a good fix for this. I don't know of a way to convince tar to not do that. And putting everything into /usr would be very incompatible.
Disable these make targets or add warnings? If disabling people should use rpms or dpkgs instead?
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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