On Tue, 08 May 2007 17:29:38 -0500
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 May 2007 16:11:54 -0400, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > On Tue, 08 May 2007 12:47:28 -0500
> > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> On Tue, 8 May 2007 16:10:29 +0200, Raffaele Morelli
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >>
> >> > That's ok, I follow the general (healthy) rule and do not log as
> >> > root if unnecessary, but for kernel (and program) compile I can not
> >> > picture 'make-kpkg' or 'configure && make' doing something
> >> > regrettable.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the vote of confidence, but you know, you should not have
> >> to do this. make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_image should work
> >> perfectly well.
>
> > When I'm not being lazy, I often do it that way, largely because you
> > suggest it in the docs.
> >> From /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz:
>
> > With the addition of fakeroot ( a really nice program, I recommend
> > it). Steps 1 to 4 can be carried out as a non root user. Step 5 does
> > require root privileges.
>
> Hmm. I should amend that to say:
> Step 5 does require (fake)root privileges.
Huh? Here's a longer excerpt:
---Begin Quote---
Phase ONE: Getting and configuring the kernel
1% cd <kernel source tree> (make sure you have write permission there)
2% make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig (or, for 2.6.x
kernels, make gconfig) and configure
Phase TWO: Create a portable kernel image .deb file
3% make-kpkg clean
4% $Get_Root make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
(Get_Root is whatever you need to become root -- fakeroot or
sudo are examples that come to mind). NOTE: if you have
instructed your boot loader to expect initrd kernels (which is
the norm for recent official kernel image packages) you need to
add --initrd to the line above.
% $Get_Root make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
Personally, I prefer non initrd images for my personal machines,
since then adding third party modules to the machine has fewer
gotchas
Phase THREE: Install the kernel image on one or more machines
5# dpkg -i ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_<arch>.deb
6# shutdown -r now # If and only if
LILO/SILO/QUIK/PALO/VMELILO/ZIPL/yaboot/.. # worked or you have a means
of # booting the new kernel. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!
With the addition of fakeroot ( a really nice program, I recommend
it). Steps 1 to 4 can be carried out as a non root user. Step 5 does
require root privileges.
---End quote---
So step 5 requires *real* root privileges, and it's step 4 that can be
done with fakeroot, while steps 1-3 don't require any sort of root
(provided you have write privileges in the appropriate directory.
>
> I did not mean it to be a suggestion; I only meant it was
> possible. Which it is.
You wrote "a really nice program, I recommend it".
>
> manoj
> --
> Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on
> children. George Bernard Shaw
I see lots of web sites attributing this to Shaw, but they don't
provide a source, and I've seen some people wondering aout the source.
Do you know?
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