Hi!
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012, Dan Douglas wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 04, 2012 10:30:20 PM Peter Stuge wrote:
> > You may recall there was a kernel build system bug which ran
> > -rf / which would be bad if you built as root.
>
> So there isn't anything during the build that requires writing
> outsid
On Wednesday, July 04, 2012 10:30:20 PM Peter Stuge wrote:
> You may recall there was a kernel build system bug which ran -rf /
> which would be bad if you built as root.
So there isn't anything during the build that requires writing outside the
source tree? Since I use a custom script for automa
On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 22:22 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 July 2012 21:36:02 Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
> > Might it be better if you could tell portage to look for kernel
> builds
> > in another location than /usr/src/linux. Perhaps you can already and
> I'm
> > not aware.
>
> expo
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On 07/05/2012 06:23 AM, Matthew Marlowe wrote:
>> The Linux kernel should not and really must not be built as root.
>> This is neither supported nor recommended nor tested by upstream.
>> You may recall there was a kernel build system bug which ran -rf
Il 05/07/2012 10:27, Tobias Klausmann ha scritto:
I vaguely remembered the rm-rf bug, but I was unable to find any
reference to it (at least not easily), do you happen to have a
pointer? Regards, Tobias
neither I, but look at this bug for an example
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/ker
> The Linux kernel should not and really must not be built as root.
> This is neither supported nor recommended nor tested by upstream.
> You may recall there was a kernel build system bug which ran -rf /
> which would be bad if you built as root.
>
> The administrator usually has a normal user acc
Am 05.07.2012 01:58, schrieb Rich Freeman:
> About the only really "safe" approach would be to run as a limited
> user, install it into some offset/chroot, package it, and then
> install it using portage as a binpkg. That actually has advantages
> on many levels, and it basically is what we do wit
Hi!
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012, Greg KH wrote:
> > Recently, I have again bumped into the question whether one
> > should compile the kernel as root. One of the things that puzzles
> > me is why almost every HowTo, blog post and book recommends
> > building as non-root -- yet basically no distribution /
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Albert W. Hopkins
wrote:
> There are kernel-dependent packages that (seem to) always look for
> configuration options, symbols, etc. in /usr/src/linux. When you use O=
> then those features do not exist in /usr/src/linux and thus those
> packages will fail. So I h
On Wednesday 04 July 2012 21:36:02 Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
> Might it be better if you could tell portage to look for kernel builds
> in another location than /usr/src/linux. Perhaps you can already and I'm
> not aware.
export KBUILD_OUTPUT=...
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On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 02:49 +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:56 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > Actually the directories do not need write permissions either. Take a
> > look at the O= option documented in /usr/src/linux/README.
>
> The KBUILD_OUTPUT / O= option seems like the
On 07/04/2012 07:58 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote:
>> The KBUILD_OUTPUT / O= option seems like the best solution to me
>> (especially so as I build three kernel images from a single sources
>> tree), and it works well, except that it sometimes doesn
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote:
> The KBUILD_OUTPUT / O= option seems like the best solution to me
> (especially so as I build three kernel images from a single sources
> tree), and it works well, except that it sometimes doesn't with
> especially monstrous and hard to config
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:56 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> Actually the directories do not need write permissions either. Take a
> look at the O= option documented in /usr/src/linux/README.
The KBUILD_OUTPUT / O= option seems like the best solution to me
(especially so as I build three kernel images
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 07:46:47PM +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Recently, I have again bumped into the question whether one
> should compile the kernel as root. One of the things that puzzles
> me is why almost every HowTo, blog post and book recommends
> building as non-root -- yet b
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 20:06:58 +0200
Tobias Klausmann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, 04 Jul 2012, Michał Górny wrote:
> > There's a very simple yet custom solution I'm using. Shortly saying:
> > checkout the kernel git to /usr/src/linux and chown to your user. As
> > far as it goes, it's superior to hav
Michael Weber wrote:
> I think running kernels from non-root checkouts is a pretty big
> security hole.
Suggest think again.
The Linux kernel should not and really must not be built as root.
This is neither supported nor recommended nor tested by upstream.
You may recall there was a kernel build
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On 07/04/2012 08:56 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 02:20:36PM -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
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>> On 07/04/2012 01:58 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>> We could allow writes i
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> On 07/04/2012 01:58 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 19:46:47 +0200
> > Tobias Klausmann wrote:
> >
> >> Recently, I have again bumped into the question w
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On 07/04/2012 01:58 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 19:46:47 +0200
> Tobias Klausmann wrote:
>
>> Recently, I have again bumped into the question whether one
>> should compile the kernel as root. One of the things that puzzles
>> me is w
Hi!
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012, Michał Górny wrote:
> There's a very simple yet custom solution I'm using. Shortly saying:
> checkout the kernel git to /usr/src/linux and chown to your user. As
> far as it goes, it's superior to having kernel sources installed by
> ebuilds.
>
> I just have to remember
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 19:46:47 +0200
Tobias Klausmann wrote:
> Recently, I have again bumped into the question whether one
> should compile the kernel as root. One of the things that puzzles
> me is why almost every HowTo, blog post and book recommends
> building as non-root -- yet basically no dist
Hi!
Recently, I have again bumped into the question whether one
should compile the kernel as root. One of the things that puzzles
me is why almost every HowTo, blog post and book recommends
building as non-root -- yet basically no distribution /helps/ the
user with doing that.
I've discussed thi
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