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Re: make-kpkg: permission denied making modules_image



On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:17:58 +0200
martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:

> > Right: with the default setup, the user who runs make-kpkg needs write
> > access to /usr/src/modules, or you need to run under sudo.
> 
> what??? this must be a joke? /usr can be mounted read-only!

That's not a joke. You might be able to do many/most things with /usr
mounted read-only, but compiling source code [located in /usr] isn't one of
them.

Think about this -- if /usr is mounted read-only how are object files to be
written?

Kevin



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