Just to throw another spanner into the discussion, any thoughts about
using a method similar to Debian's 'kernel-package' system? The kernel and
modules tree is built and installed into a temporary directory where it's
packaged up for the local packaging system, or checked perhaps with 'du -a
tmp/finished-kernel/' before manually installing. Here an ordinary user
can build and even package the kernel, but root still will need to install
it.
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 09:38:01PM +0200, Xuan Baldauf wrote:
> > Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:16:15PM +0200, Xuan Baldauf wrote:
> > > > over night (my box is not the fastest). This usually works fine. But everytime
> > > > you forget to update EXTRAVERSION, I get my modules overwritten in the wrong
> > > > place.
> > > >
> > > > So *please* use a script which automatically increments EXTRAVERSION (I'm sure
> > > > you use a script
> > > Umm, something you could check in a script as well...
> >
> > I do not know Alan's build-a-new-ac-patch-scripts
> Well, what I actually meant is that if you automate something like "make
> modules_install" to run unattended it makes sense to put in some checks.
>
> Such an automated build should never overwrite your modules and it
> should be fairly easy to protect your system from doing that. For example
> make the appropriate places writable for a dedicated kernel build user
> in advance, do the kernel build/install as that non-root user and
> revoke the rights afterwards.
>
> Also, it is fairly easy to _set_ the extraversion by a patch script and
> to undo it again after the kernel build (so the next ac level will patch
> cleanly). If you know the name of the patch you know the EXTRAVERSION.
>
> Don't build kernels as root. Give the [dedicated] user (e.g. "src",
> "linux", "boot") enough power to do just that job or do the last step
> manually as root (that's what I do).
>
> --
> Frank
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