OT: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage
On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 12:40 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote:
> >>
> >> fakeroot
> >
> > ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when
> > building a kernel. I run my scripts to build kernel-rts as root.
>
> Why is it a PitA? Because you're philosophically opposed to it? Or
> because it has failed to build a kernel or created a "bad" kernel?
>
> Are you building a kernel or a kernel package?
>
> If you're building a kernel, you only root privs for the 'make
> modules_install" and "make install" steps.
>
> If you're building a package using "make deb-pkg", pass
> "KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD=fakeroot" for fakeroot to be used when needed.
>
> If you're building a package using "dpkg-buildpackage", fakeroot is
> used when needed.
>
> You can also use "KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD=sudo" or "dpkg-buildpackage
> -rsudo" for sudo to be used rather than fakeroot but I've never tried
> either.
I build kernel packages without fakeroot, since I'm running my scripts
as root. I read several times on Debian user, that others tried to use
fakeroot to build Debian packages, but it didn't work. IOW I never
experienced issues with fakeroot, since it's irrelevant when building a
kernel package as root.
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