Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] devtool: deploy-target: support "unsafe" symlinks

2019-02-27 Thread Richard Purdie
On Wed, 2019-02-27 at 09:10 +, Olaf Mandel wrote: > The bosybox version of tar in sumo 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

[OE-core] [PATCH v2] devtool: deploy-target: support "unsafe" symlinks

2019-02-27 Thread Olaf Mandel
The bosybox version of tar in sumo 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,