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Le Saturday 11 September 2010 22:51:47, Alan McKinnon a écrit : |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:34 on Saturday 11 September 2010, Nikos |
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> |
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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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> > > |
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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 |
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> > >>> author wrote we shouldn't do kernel operations (config and build) as |
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> > >>> root. |
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> > >> |
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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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> > > |
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> > > Same here. |
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> > > |
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> > > The root user (sometimes portage) creates /usr/src/linux-* |
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> > > |
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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 |
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> 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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Linux kernel in a nutschell, chapter 1 - Introduction. |
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You can read the pdf I send. |
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I am not paranoid anymore, saying it again. Just curious, wanting to know, |
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this sorte of things... |
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Stéphane Guedon |
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page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ |
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carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf |
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clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.asc |
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