From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OuWWh-00051D-1Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:18:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C3B7E0AFF; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:18:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DDE9E0AFF for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:18:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so2537599ewy.40 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:18:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=eiye+oMVH9sNpFRWQ2/WppA8APYeMBv0dKfZ53rkSdY=; b=IT+O3msc4aXYsd4sUmHPQgEHbnyO8n3/RaYcliPjja/CWaXRYd0WE8V8JsOewp2ZdH duneMgBOcbGD8vQky/Ge0LwwH87YHuHdCi9IPp/dwR34/27QFZ7TV45Uit+XkpTHgwl+ W1JYEFebSPROyk4KYQf38+hFQAIxUbhtFOYT4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=pDIXjpkOvNxba5I/Et46YkoPozjQOAZM0Emg6JjegWgMTT6SvejZCiSDBWWRBnQ5pm fVkb4jcX9AUboCCWyLoyqHqKaMNZXahWZXIC8vU95pcwnaskGuBaD7TBLGwTOU0FZUvf 5zCTDV5BL4SQz66+RvfjrV2zrtSlPF0MGKPgg= Received: by 10.213.113.144 with SMTP id a16mr558791ebq.50.1284236290653; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-155.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v59sm6227611eeh.22.2010.09.11.13.18.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:18:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ? Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:18:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r2; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <201009111024.31634.stephane@22decembre.eu> <1284198419.2992.20.camel@paska> In-Reply-To: <1284198419.2992.20.camel@paska> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201009112218.05042.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c7d278b3-dd0b-47b0-8df8-62c7fe6dae07 X-Archives-Hash: 2e1c6a7a38afcd20a63349513a2caeb9 Apparently, though unproven, at 11:46 on Saturday 11 September 2010, Albert= =20 Hopkins did opine thusly: > On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 10:24 +0200, St=C3=A9phane Guedon wrote: > > few months ago, I read linux kernel in a nutschell(sic), and the author > > wrote we shouldn't do kernel operations (config and build) as root. >=20 > I call bullsh*t. I've been compiling kernels for 17 years and for the > most part have done it as root without any problems. Same here. The root user (sometimes portage) creates /usr/src/linux-* Someone tell me again exactly how user alan is supposed to build those=20 sources? =2D-=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com