Re: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:13:24PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Daniel Farnsworth Teichert <danielt@ee.byu.edu> [20030305 12:23 PST]:
> > (Note that the above requires that root has access to your X
> > display, because it uses 'xconfig'. Now, this is probably going
> > to show you how clue-less I am, but one simple way I do this on
> > occasion is by 'ssh -X root@localhost' to become root for the
> > above; go ahead, tell me it's silly--I know : ).
>
> Actually, you get a big round of applause. ssh -X root@localhost is a
> fine way to go. When you started to say clueless I was preparing myself
^^^^ should have been "is one way"
> for another "why nobody should ever use xhost, ever" rant coming on, but
> you've done things the^H^H^H^H a good way =)
ssh is cpu bandwidth eater for no reason other than short typing.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-ss-xsu
> > Anyway, like I have already implied, I'm no expert here--but I
> > thought this was more along the Debian lines.
As the other said, fakeroot is the ticket :-)
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