Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel
On 2010-07-26 03:32 +0200, Curt Howland wrote:
> Well, I've run into another problem with the compile that folks might
> find interesting.
>
> All while running as the only user account on this machine (other than
> root), I ran into a very interesting permissions error at the end of
> the "make-kpkg kernel_image" process. I did the compile as root
> successfully after seeing this error the first time, just to see if it
> was user related, and the compile completed successfully.
>
> In fact, I'm running 2.6.35-rc6 right now, no problems.
>
> But I erased the directory and un-tarred the generic kernel source
> again just to be sure, and received the same permission error again.
> I'm just not sure if this is a debian "make-kpkg" error or not...
You need to install the fakeroot package to build Debian packages as an
ordinary user. In Squeeze, dpkg-dev recommends fakeroot for that reason.
> install: cannot change owner and permissions of
> `/usr/src/linux-2.6.35-rc6/debian/linux-image-2.6.35-rc6-curt.02/etc/kernel/postinst.d':
> Operation not permitted
What fakeroot does is to install a wrapper around chown and other system
calls to pretend they succeeded. It also starts a daemon that remembers
the new owner, so that the files are actually owned by that user
(usually root) when the package is created.
Sven
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