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Re: building 2.6.35



On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:05 PM, John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>>  4% $Get_Root make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
>>       (Get_Root is whatever you need to become root -- fakeroot or
>>       sudo are examples that come to mind).
>
> >From the fakeroot man page:
>
>   DESCRIPTION
>
>       fakeroot runs a command in an environment wherein it appears to
>       have root privileges for file manipulation.  This is useful for
>       allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb etc.) with files
>       in them with root permissions/ownership.  Without fakeroot one
>       would need to have root privileges to create the constituent
>       files of the archives with the correct permissions and ownership,
>       and then pack them up, or one would have to construct the
>       archives directly, without using the archiver.

See http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/08/msg00455.html


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