Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

[Dave Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net>]

On 07/26/2010 11:04 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> There's another advice I need to give: while dpkg-dev will automatically
> use fakeroot when necessary, make-kpkg currently does not unless you set
> ROOT_CMD=fakeroot in the environment.  You can put this setting into
> ~/.kernel-pkg.conf (I have it there for ages, and forgot about it).

One can also add a command line option,

  --rootcmd=fakeroot

or one can simply run the whole 'make-kpkg' command as the argument to 
fakeroot:

    fakeroot  make-kpkg  [...]


Dave W.