Re: World writable tarballs

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 08:18:42 +0200

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:59:22PM -0700, Joshua Hudson wrote:

I've got good reasons
for compiling the kernel as root (when in the make, install, reboot, test
loop it's quite a timesaver).

Care to explain why it is a timesaver to compile your kernel as root?
Other do something like:
make && sudo make modules_install && sudo make install

Or variants of this. In this way we run only a minimal set as root.

Sam
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