mktarball: Use root/root for internal ownership

[PATCH for-4.19] mktarball: Use root/root for internal ownership

Posted by Andrew Cooper 5 days, 8 hours ago

... rather than leaking whomever created the tarball.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
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CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>

And backport to 4.17 as there's still one more release to do there.
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 tools/misc/mktarball | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/misc/mktarball b/tools/misc/mktarball
index 42d543073cfc..15a4e0bfad62 100755
--- a/tools/misc/mktarball
+++ b/tools/misc/mktarball
@@ -49,6 +49,6 @@ git_archive_into $xen_root/tools/qemu-xen-traditional-dir-remote $tdir/xen-$desc
 
 git_archive_into $xen_root/extras/mini-os-remote $tdir/xen-$desc/extras/mini-os
 
-GZIP=-9v tar cz -f $xen_root/dist/xen-$desc.tar.gz -C $tdir xen-$desc
+GZIP=-9v tar cz -f $xen_root/dist/xen-$desc.tar.gz --owner 0 --group 0 -C $tdir xen-$desc
 
 echo "Source tarball in $xen_root/dist/xen-$desc.tar.gz"

base-commit: 3fb951af741ab2faa5a44d413fe1393cdeea05c4
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2.39.5

Re: [PATCH for-4.19] mktarball: Use root/root for internal ownership

Posted by Jan Beulich 5 days, 7 hours ago

On 13.11.2025 17:20, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> ... rather than leaking whomever created the tarball.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> ---
> CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
> 
> And backport to 4.17 as there's still one more release to do there.

Fine with me:
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Jan