Re: [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ?

[Gregory Shearman <zekeyg@gmail.com>]

In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>
> Some people, such as myself, use kernel sources outside of portage (I
> follow a git repo) and do so as a non-root user.  In this case the
> kernel tree is not owned by root and the config/compile is easily done
> as a non-root user.
>
> If you are super-paranoid.  You can make a non-root copy
> of /usr/src/linux and compile it as a non-root user.
>
> But there really isn't any point in using sudo.  It's effectively doing
> the same thing that you are trying to avoid.

I agree there's no point in using sudo, but what's the problem? You
don't need to edit the kernel sources merely to build a new kernel. You
can build your kernel outside the tree using for example:
make O=/home/user/kernel/tree/ menuconfig
make O=/home/user/kernel/tree/

All files are put into the user's directory.

All that's need is the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment variable set, so that
drivers can find the kernel .config file etc.

I've built my kernels like this for years now. All kernels are built by
a specific user and then installed as root. No problem, no worries about
permissions and no altering the portage installed kernel sources so that
a purge (emerge -P gentoo-sources) will automatically remove the whole
tree.

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Regards,

Gregory.