From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eduardo Pereira Habkost Subject: Re: MAKEDEV patch Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:35:11 -0300 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040615133511.GU26330@duckman.distro.conectiva> References: <20040611201338.71829.qmail@web51305.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+epxrXWOh++2HLjY" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040611201338.71829.qmail@web51305.mail.yahoo.com> List-Id: To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org --+epxrXWOh++2HLjY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Tommy, On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:13:38PM -0700, Tommy McCabe wrote: > This patch uses sudo to do the mknods in MAKEDEV. >=20 >=20 > --- ./elkscurr/elkscmd/rootfs_template/dev/MAKEDEV > 2004-06-11 16:01:53.000000000 -0400 > +++ ./elks/elkscmd/rootfs_template/dev/MAKEDEV > 2004-06-11 15:54:50.000000000 -0400 > @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ > # Refer to the MAKESET command, also in this > directory, for usage details. >=20 > LINK=3Dln > -MKDEV=3Dmknod > +MKDEV=3Dsudo -u root mknod > MKSET=3D./MAKESET I think that making everybody use sudo to build the disk images *and* breaking the MAKEDEV script (that is supposed to run inside elks, too), is not a good thing. We should instruct the users to build the disk images as root (or better: find a way to build the disk images without the need of root privileges, some day), but not inserting 'sudo' everywhere on the buildsystem. We can have users that: - Don't like sudo - Don't use sudo, and don't want to configure it - Don't know how to configure sudo - Use sudo, and have a small password timeout, and don't wat to be asked for the password many times during the disk images building If you want to use sudo to build the disk images, please use 'sudo make ', it is easier and simpler. -- Eduardo --+epxrXWOh++2HLjY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAzvsPcaRJ66w1lWgRArIjAJ9sqyeYqRb6ODPMS+KgpnWSKVxqzACfUH0I YY5/zM2TBemv1YPth989ATM= =h6jm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+epxrXWOh++2HLjY--