Re: Kernel compilation
On 21 Feb 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[snip]
> Christian> If this is really the only reason for running make-kpkg as
> Christian> root, we should patch the kernel makefiles. Perhaps it
> Christian> would be sufficient, to replace /lib/modules by
> Christian> $PREFIX/lib/modules or something similar.
>
> This is quite confused. The reason we have to run make-kpkg as
> root is the same reason that we have to run dgpkg-buildpackage
> as root (both these programs also acccomodate fakeroot et al and only
> run as root when needed).
>
> If I have misunderstood something, please tell me were I have
> gone astray.
Oops! I said I didn't know the package so far... I just tried it and it
works perfectly with fakeroot! (Just forget what I said in my last mail.)
This is really an excellent (and I mean `excellent') program! Thanks for
writing it!
In suggestion: Since one doesn't need root privilegies, I think it would
be good to mention this in the README file. The following lines made me
assume that one has to run this all as root (yes, I thought I'm `brave and
impatient' enough ;-)
For the Brave and the impatient:
1% cd <kernel source tree>
2% make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig and configure
3% make-kpkg clean
4% make-kpkg -revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
5% dpkg -i ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_<arch>.deb
6% shutdown -r now # If and only if LILO worked or you have a means of
# booting the new kernel. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!
Perhaps you should mention that 1% to 4% can (and probably _should_) be
done as non-root.
Also note, that the make-kpkg is currently sitting in /usr/sbin. Perhaps
this command should be moved into /usr/bin then.
Anyways, I really like this package and I'm going to use it for all my
machines here and at work...
Thanks,
Chris
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