Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] devtool: deploy-target: support "unsafe" symlinks

2019-02-26 Thread Andre McCurdy
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 1:40 AM Olaf Mandel wrote: > > The bosybox version of tar considers symlink targets that start with / > or with ../ to be unsafe and refuses to unpack them unless the > EXTRACT_UNSAFE_SYMLINKS environment variable is set to 1. > > As even many core packages legitimately

[OE-core] [PATCH] devtool: deploy-target: support "unsafe" symlinks

2019-02-26 Thread Olaf Mandel
The bosybox version of tar considers symlink targets that start with / or with ../ to be unsafe and refuses to unpack them unless the EXTRACT_UNSAFE_SYMLINKS environment variable is set to 1. As even many core packages legitimately contain such links (e.g. coreutils-locale-*, dropbear, eudev,