Re: make-kpkg: permission denied making modules_image
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:50:13 +0200
martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
> cp: cannot create regular file
> `/usr/src/modules/nvidia/debian/control': Permission denied
>
> which makes perfect sense, because
>
> diamond:...new/src/linux-2.4.21> id
> uid=1000(madduck) gid=100(users) ...
>
> I consider this a bug, but I can't imagine that this bug exists
> because make-kpkg has existed for ages, and this is, after all,
> Debian.
>
> So I am wondering: what am I doing wrong? I *should* be able to
> compile modules for an existing kernel tree without write privs to
> /usr/src/modules/..., right?
I don't think so.
Try a different syntax for make-kpkg:
fakeroot make-kpkg --options
Kevin
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