Am Di, den 03.08.2004 schrieb Robert P. J. Day um 15:54: > >> to the previous post re: building a kernel, the most important > >> information to remember is to move the kernel source out from under > >> that silly /usr/src/linux directory and (if you have the room) to > >> somewhere under your home directory. > > > > Why? > > This strikes me as completely unnecessary. > > > > If you download the kernel source, eg from www.kernel.org, > > it will un-tar in /usr/src/linux-2.6.7 or whatever. > > You can change the ownership of this directory to yourself if you wish. > > (I always do.) > > simply because there's little reason for any regular user to be doing > work anywhere under the /usr directory. it goes back to my point > about being able to mount /usr readonly, if you can make that work. Robert, you are right. Do as less as root as necessary/possible. To cite the README from the kernel source: "To do the actual install you have to be root, but none of the normal build should require that. Don't take the name of root in vain." What I actually think of is your suggestion to ro mount the /usr/partition. Seems to me it is conflicting with prelinking, isn't it? > the same logic applies to customizing your session so you can build > RPMS under your home directory. there's little reason to keep working > under /usr if you don't have to. Right. I already though whether it might be useful if an installation of the rpm-build RPM shouldn't invoke the adding of a new user with the purpose to be the rpm-build user, with a preset rpmbuild environment. I think the existence of the /usr/src/redhat tree leads to the fact, that many people (if not most) are building packages as root. > rday Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3.ad.umlsmp Serendipity 16:14:13 up 2 days, 21:39, load average: 0.45, 0.30, 0.26
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