Team: Up to now, I've been building my kernels as root. In fact, doing everything as root. Installing the source, compiling, and installing the resultant kernel.
But this group seems to think that sound practice would be to only use root to download/install the kernel-source (via apt-get) and install the kernel (via dpkg -i) and do everything else as an ordinary user, via fakeroot. That said, after apt-getting the kernel-source, what permissions do you suggest be set on the /usr/src/kernel-source-x.y.z directory, and what group membership do you recommend/. By default, /usr/src has gid src, and group permissions are rws, which I assume means SGID . . . but the bunzipped and untarred src package directory is set 755 with a GID of root . . . What do you folks recommend? After untarring the source: add my ordinary user to group src chgrp -R src /usr/src/kernel-source-x.y.z chmod -R 775 /usr/src/kernel-source-x.y.z and then be an ordinary user for: fakeroot make-kpkg clean copy /boot/config .config make kpkg xconfig fakeroot make-kpkg clean fakeroot make-kpkg kernel-image is that it? madmac -- Doug MacFarlane [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
