Michal Suchanek writes:
 > 2009/8/12 Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@acm.org>:
 > > Hi,
 > >
 > >        Well, what commands were you issuing when the  build failed? I
 > >  can still build a kernel_image with rootcmd fakeroot, and I do not see
 > >  where the bug could lie, especially without a log.
 > 
 > I changed my target from kernel_image to binary-arch.


     That explains it, then.

 > 
 > >
 > >        Secondly, the whole system was revamped after lenny released, so
 > >  this is a non-issue for the latest kernel-package, but the bug is not
 > >  important enough to get past the release managers for a stable update.
 > >
 > 
 > I can understand that.
 > 
 > However, at least a note in the text of
 > 
 >  make-kpkg  --help
 > 
 > about the targets that that do not work with --rootcmd would be nice.

      Yes, but such a change will not make it into Lenny, since it is
 not sever enough to break the stable restriction,

 > A check for this problem before the build would be also nice. It's
 > somewhat annoying that the build fails at the very end for reason
 > known at the time the command line is parsed and rebuilds do not work
 > without cleaning everything.

        This is the case in the version in testing and unstable.  And
 since Lenny is now stable, these can't easily be ported back into the
 version on Lenny.

        manoj

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