scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root

Use the --owner= and --group= options to make sure the entries in
the built tar file are owned by root.  Without this change, a
careless sysadmin using the tar-pkg target can easily end up
installing a kernel that is writable by the unprivileged user
account used to build the kernel.

Test that these options are understood before using them so that
non-GNU versions of tar can still be used if the operator is
appropriately cautious.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This commit is contained in:
Michal Marek 2009-11-24 09:11:37 -06:00
parent 8723eaeff5
commit 91d161857c

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@ -101,7 +101,11 @@ esac
#
(
cd "${tmpdir}"
tar cf - . | ${compress} > "${tarball}${file_ext}"
opts=
if tar --owner=root --group=root --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
opts="--owner=root --group=root"
fi
tar cf - . $opts | ${compress} > "${tarball}${file_ext}"
)
echo "Tarball successfully created in ${tarball}${file_ext}"