Without these patches, to build an upgraded kernel on a Debian machine, one has to use commands I keep on forgetting: make oldconfig make fakeroot -u make deb-pkg With these patches applied, as long as fakeroot is installed, a single command will do: make oldconfig deb-pkg If fakeroot is not installed, there should be no change in behavior. I have been using this to build the last few kernels, finding it very convenient. I look forward to your thoughts, even if they are just "I have no time to look at this now". I would like to get an idea of whether people think these patches are a good idea, so I can fix them if they're broken and chase them out of my local tree. Jonathan Nieder (2): scripts/package: add ROOTCMD variable scripts/package: use fakeroot if available scripts/package/Makefile | 22 ++++++++++++++++------ 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
