Re: Kernel compilation
Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:
> iii) Doing it this way forces you to be root to do a kernel compile.
>
> I know this probably more of a problem with the packaging system
> itself. However it would be very nice if this could be changed. There
> should be no need to be root to compile a kernel, only when installing
> it.
That's what the fakeroot package is for.
$ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision foo.1.0 kernel_image
will do what you want. No root required.
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