1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/package/Makefile b/scripts/package/Makefile
index 5e326078a4a2..8c6b7b09606a 100644
--- a/scripts/package/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/package/Makefile
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 # Makefile for the different targets used to generate full packages of a kernel
 # It uses the generic clean infrastructure of kbuild
 
-# Ignore the following files/directories during tar operation
-TAR_IGNORE := --exclude SCCS --exclude BitKeeper --exclude .svn --exclude CVS
-
-
 # RPM target
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The rpm target generates two rpm files:
@@ -47,7 +43,7 @@ rpm-pkg rpm: $(objtree)/kernel.spec FORCE
         set -e; \
         mv -f $(objtree)/.tmp_version $(objtree)/.version
 
-        $(RPM) --target $(UTS_MACHINE) -ta ../$(KERNELPATH).tar.gz
+        $(RPM) $(RPMOPTS) --target $(UTS_MACHINE) -ta ../$(KERNELPATH).tar.gz
         rm ../$(KERNELPATH).tar.gz
 
 clean-files := $(objtree)/kernel.spec
@@ -64,7 +60,8 @@ binrpm-pkg: $(objtree)/binkernel.spec FORCE
         set -e; \
         mv -f $(objtree)/.tmp_version $(objtree)/.version
 
-        $(RPM) --define "_builddir $(srctree)" --target $(UTS_MACHINE) -bb $<
+        $(RPM) $(RPMOPTS) --define "_builddir $(srctree)" --target \
+                $(UTS_MACHINE) -bb $<
 
 clean-files += $(objtree)/binkernel.spec