On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 19:46:47 +0200 Tobias Klausmann <klaus...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Recently, I have again bumped into the question whether one > should compile the kernel as root. One of the things that puzzles > me is why almost every HowTo, blog post and book recommends > building as non-root -- yet basically no distribution /helps/ the > user with doing that. > > I've discussed this with a few people on #gentoo-dev and they've > provided valuable insight (thanks AxS, Chainsaw and WilliamH), so > I have gathered the results so far here: > > http://blog.i-no.de/archives/2012/07/index.html#e2012-07-04T19_28_32.txt > > Feel free to comment (ideally here). Note that I'm aiming for a > solution that is not (overly) Gentoo-specific. There's a very simple yet custom solution I'm using. Shortly saying: checkout the kernel git to /usr/src/linux and chown to your user. As far as it goes, it's superior to having kernel sources installed by ebuilds. I just have to remember to do 'git fetch' from time to time and 'git merge' whenever a new version is tagged. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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