Re: make-kpkg

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

dave mallery <dmallery@cia-g.com> writes:
> trying to make a revised 2.2.20 kernel package.  running without
> root in /usr/src/linux per the excellent newbiedoc howto:
> 
>>make-kpkg clean
> ... blur
>>make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image --append_to_version=x01
> 
> ...snip about 20 minutes of blur
> 
> touch stamp-build
> need root priviledges
> make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 1

Building Debian packages requires a limited ability to change
permissions and owners on files.  Generally the 'fakeroot' package is
used to pretend to do this; 'apt-get install fakeroot', then add
'--rootcmd=fakeroot' to your make-kpkg invocation.

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