Re: Too restrictive permissions on some files prevent non-root build (with KBUILD_OUTPUT) [bug 2669]

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@ThinRope.net>]

Pascal Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2004 15:30:14 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:
> 
>>For 2.6.6 the files in question can be found by:
>>cd /sometempdir
>>tar xjf linux-2.6.6.tar.bz2
>>find linux-2.6.6 ! -perm -004 -exec ls -l {} \;
> 
> 
> This can only be a problem when unpacking as root, otherwise all
> files are owned by the user running tar, anyway. I guess most
> people don't do their kernel work as root... and why should they?
> 
> The simple workaround is to unpack the tar archive as the user
> planning to run the compile.
> 

Well, I guess you are right, but I prefer (and usually do) a single source tree in /usr/src/linux-2.6.6 as for the kurrent kernel and then other users (i.e. non root) compile with the KBUILD_OUTPUT in other directories.

Why?

Because I compile all my kernels on a single machine (but with distcc running on 4+ boxes) and then install it on the other machines.

Even if these file permissions are note a "real bug" there is no point in only some files being non-world readable (some in the Documentation/ as well).

Kalin.

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