Le Saturday 11 September 2010 22:51:47, Alan McKinnon a écrit :
> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:34 on Saturday 11 September 2010, Nikos
> 
> Chantziaras did opine thusly:
> > On 09/11/2010 11:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > Apparently, though unproven, at 11:46 on Saturday 11 September 2010,
> > > Albert
> > > 
> > > Hopkins did opine thusly:
> > >> On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 10:24 +0200, Stéphane 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.
> > >> 
> > >> 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
> > > sources?
> > 
> > chown -R
> 
> I utterly fail to see the point of this prohibition against building as
> root.
> 
> Sure, it makes sense when I'm installing perl stuff for my users and last
> command is sudo make install. But for everything else?

Linux kernel in a nutschell, chapter 1 - Introduction.

You can read the pdf I send.

I am not paranoid anymore, saying it again. Just curious, wanting to know, 
this sorte of things...

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