Re: Kernel compilation
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On 19 Feb 1998, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
> Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
>
> > You may use fakeroot, so iii) is not really a limitation.
>
> Aha..good. However I recall that make-kpkg puts explicit checks for
> root. Those should be removed then.
The checks are needed, because you have to be able to do a chown to root
But if you use fakeroot, make-kpkg will really believe you are root :-)
So this is no problem.
The only problem I see is "make modules_install"...
[ The issue here would be then whether /lib/modules is hardwired in the
kernel Makefile or it is possible to use an alternate directory for that ].
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