Unless already running as root, use fakeroot to ensure the files in the generated binary packages are owned by root. Without this change, you have to set KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD or become root yourself to run "make foo-pkg". With this patch applied, you can run "make oldconfig rpm-pkg" as an ordinary user to build a binary package for an updated kernel tree and it should just work. fakeroot is a bit too zealous by default in pretending files are owned by root. Unless directed otherwise, its wrapped stat() and lstat() set st_uid and st_gid to 0 for all files. This slows down the Linux build with CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO a lot, since git notices that the owners have changed and has to reread the entire kernel tree to learn that the content has not changed. Since "make modules_install" and "scripts/package/foo" run within the same fakeroot session, we are free to avoid this by telling fakeroot to use the actual owner and group for preexisting files, by passing it the -u option. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changes from v1: - rename ROOTCMD variable to KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD scripts/package/Makefile | 9 +++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/package/Makefile b/scripts/package/Makefile index 6997f38..2aa7e8c 100644 --- a/scripts/package/Makefile +++ b/scripts/package/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,15 @@ # Makefile for the different targets used to generate full packages of a kernel # It uses the generic clean infrastructure of kbuild +# How to acquire (fake) root privileges +ifndef KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD +ifneq ($(shell id -u),0) +ifeq ($(shell which fakeroot >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo found),found) +KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD := fakeroot -u +endif +endif +endif + # RPM target # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # The rpm target generates two rpm files: -- 1.6.5.rc1.199.g596ec -- 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
