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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html