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On 09/11/2010 11:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:34 on Saturday 11 September 2010, Nikos |
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> Chantziaras did opine thusly: |
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>> On 09/11/2010 11:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> Apparently, though unproven, at 11:46 on Saturday 11 September 2010, |
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>>> Albert |
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>>> Hopkins did opine thusly: |
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>>>> On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 10:24 +0200, Stéphane Guedon wrote: |
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>>>>> few months ago, I read linux kernel in a nutschell(sic), and the author |
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>>>>> wrote we shouldn't do kernel operations (config and build) as root. |
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>>>> I call bullsh*t. I've been compiling kernels for 17 years and for the |
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>>>> most part have done it as root without any problems. |
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>>> Same here. |
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>>> The root user (sometimes portage) creates /usr/src/linux-* |
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>>> Someone tell me again exactly how user alan is supposed to build those |
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>>> sources? |
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>> |
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>> chown -R |
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> I utterly fail to see the point of this prohibition against building as root. |
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> Sure, it makes sense when I'm installing perl stuff for my users and last |
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> command is sudo make install. But for everything else? |
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Well, running GCC and Make as root raises the same concerns as running |
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any other program as root. |
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In the case of Gentoo, this isn't too important though, since in Gentoo, |
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you don't build your software in your home dir and then "sudo make |
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install", but portage will run GCC as root anyway. |
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With other distros, you never run GCC/Make/etc as root. In Gentoo you |
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do, so there's no point in reading too much into this. |
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