-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Package: kernel-package Version: 13.014 Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer, I looked at the manpage of make-kpkg, and it said, it was not recommended to build as root. > Typically, make-kpkg should be run under fakeroot, > > > make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_image > > but instead you run this command as root (this is not recommended), or under > fakeroot, > or tell make-kpkg how to become root (not recommended either, fakeroot is > perhaps the > safest option), like so: > > > make-kpkg --rootcmd sudo kernel_image > > The Debian package file is created in the parent directory of the kernel > source > directory where this command is run. So I tried the '--rootcmd sudo' option and found, that the results are not workable. Kernels build and install fine, but booting them fails very early in the process. It is probably the case, that using sudo is not significantly more secure than doing this as root, so I will have to learn about fakeroot, as it seems. I tried this both on testing and on stable, the latter with the latest default 3.2-kernel-source. So this possibility probably has to be removed from the manpage. - -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.3edt (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages kernel-package depends on: ii bc 1.06.95-9 ii binutils 2.24.90.20141023-1 ii build-essential 11.7 ii bzip2 1.0.6-7 ii dpkg-dev 1.17.13 ii file 1:5.20-1 ii gettext 0.19.2-3 ii kmod 18-3 ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu3 ii xmlto 0.0.25-2 ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 Versions of packages kernel-package recommends: ii cpio 2.11+dfsg-2 ii docbook-utils 0.6.14-3 ii kernel-common 13.014 pn uboot-mkimage <none> Versions of packages kernel-package suggests: pn libncurses-dev <none> ii linux-source 3.16+62 - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlRWJ84ACgkQ5+rBHyUt5wuXlACcCW0gLGV5VFxXSupQ+p0BIBHY ahQAoIZV27glgkAZyCNNWFo6fSBPzYup =xGox -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
