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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