Re: root or non-root for make-kpkg?
Tim Dijkstra <newsuser@famdijkstra.org> writes:
> On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 12:02:19 +0000
> Tim <gob@subdimension.com> wrote:
>> I installed a new kernel as per:
>>
>> http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html.en
>>
>> as non-root. make-kpkg failed, with this error:
>>
>> need root priviledges
>> make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 1
>
> fakeroot make-kpkg ....
Even better, 'make-kpkg --rootcmd=fakeroot ...' This will only run
the things that need to be run under fakeroot under fakeroot, in
principle. In reality, under woody, if you're building add-on
modules, you still need 'fakeroot make-kpkg modules-image'; under sid,
many, but not all, of the modules DTRT with --fakeroot.
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