Let the deb-pkg target acquire (fake) root privileges before running commands that need them. Without such privileges, deb-pkg errors out because chown fails. The new KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable, if defined, is used as a command to run other commands with possibly fake elevated privileges. Since this is not needed for the tar-pkg and rpm-pkg targets, it is only used by deb-pkg. If it is not defined, the behavior is as before, and the user will have to rerun make as root. In other words, as a shortcut, instead of running 'make oldconfig && make && fakeroot -u make deb-pkg', one can use the single command 'make oldconfig deb-pkg KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD="fakeroot -u"'. Suggested-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- This patch does not use the variable in the rpm-pkg or tar-pkg targets any more, since they already cope fine as non-root. scripts/package/Makefile | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/package/Makefile b/scripts/package/Makefile index f67cc88..5c0b43a 100644 --- a/scripts/package/Makefile +++ b/scripts/package/Makefile @@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ clean-files += $(objtree)/binkernel.spec # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- deb-pkg: FORCE $(MAKE) KBUILD_SRC= - $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/package/builddeb + $(KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD) $(CONFIG_SHELL) \ + $(srctree)/scripts/package/builddeb clean-dirs += $(objtree)/debian/ -- 1.6.5.3 -- 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
