From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: [q] make modules_install as non-root?
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:11:57 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6221.1133493117@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:23:49 +0800." <2cd57c900512011823v153a6763t@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:23:49 +0800,
Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello people,
>
>I wrote my own installkernel so I can do `make install' as non-root
>with the help of sudo. But how can we get to do `make modules_install'
>as non-root with sudo as well?
>
>The works of modules_install seem scattered over several places. Is
>it a nice idea to factor out an *installmodules* script for `make
>modules_install' to invoke?
>
>ps:
>Linus recommend us to build as non-root and install as root.
>I ask if we should install as non-root too.
make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=<somewhere> modules_install
Then use sudo to move from <somewhere>/lib/modules/<version> to /lib/modules/<version>.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-02 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-02 2:23 [q] make modules_install as non-root? Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-12-02 2:46 ` Peter Williams
2005-12-02 2:59 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-12-02 3:04 ` Peter Williams
2005-12-02 14:21 ` Horst von Brand
2005-12-02 3:11 ` Keith Owens [this message]
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