On (22/06/06 21:07), Kit Peters wrote: > On 6/22/06, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It is oft recommended to use fakeroot rather that a real root command > >for compiling. > Hm. I've never used fakeroot for anything. How would I compile a kernel in > fakeroot?
aptitude install fakeroot s/sudo/fakeroot/ in your command. That should be it. You then don't have to enter your password, and there is less chance of something going catastrophically wrong. > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359832 > No, I'm using kernel-package 10.047. It might be a re-occurence of a similar bug. I am using the same version and compiled the debian 2.6.17.rc3 packages a couple of days ago. Perhaps it could be the vanilla source that is causing it. (Though I doubt it). > Well, I'll try the make-kpkg clean, but I'm not sanguine about the outcome. Neither am I. James -- James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jameswestby.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
