From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: sudo in kernel config ?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:34:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i6gp38$773$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009112218.05042.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-11 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-11 8:24 [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ? Stéphane Guedon
2010-09-11 9:46 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-09-11 10:41 ` Stéphane Guedon
2010-09-11 13:43 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-09-11 15:53 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-09-11 20:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 20:34 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2010-09-11 20:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 21:05 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-12 8:14 ` Stéphane Guedon
2010-09-11 20:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2010-09-11 20:28 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-11 20:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 22:05 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-11 22:03 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-11 23:06 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-11 23:15 ` [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] " Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-12 9:16 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-12 10:24 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-09-12 16:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Al
2010-09-11 20:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-11 20:49 ` Dale
2010-09-11 21:01 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-11 21:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-11 21:47 ` Dale
2010-09-11 23:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-09-12 16:59 ` walt
2010-09-11 17:59 ` Nikos Chantziaras
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