Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:21:31 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> Cc: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Subject: Re: Cannot install kernel as user Message-ID: <41F1AA9B.4070603@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <50158.208.4.77.66.1106323175.squirrel@208.4.77.66> References: <20050121151747.GA36660@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <50158.208.4.77.66.1106323175.squirrel@208.4.77.66>
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Ryan Sommers wrote: >Jeremie Le Hen said: > > >>Hi, >> >>my laptop is a very slow beast but this is the only computer I can >>actually run -CURRENT on. In order to parallelize task, when my laptop >>is fsck'ing after a panic, I use a collegue's computer on which I have >>a shell to build the new kernel. Everything works quite well, except >>that when I install the kernel, install(8) will stop on chown(2) : >> >>%%% >> propane:Z6PO$ make KERNEL=kernel.test DESTDIR=$HOME/export install >> [...] >> mkdir -p /home/tataz/export/boot/kernel.test >> install -p -m 555 -o root -g wheel kernel >>/home/tataz/export/boot/kernel.test >> install: /home/tataz/export/boot/kernel.test/kernel: chown/chgrp: >>Operation not permitted >> *** Error code 71 >> >> Stop in /usr/home/tataz/FreeBSD/CURRENT/src/sys/i386/compile/Z6PO. >>%%% >> >>I thought about adding a flag such as NO_INSTALLCHOWN in both >>kern.post.mk and kmod.mk. What do you think of the idea ? >> >>I saw there are KMODOWN and KMODGRP in kmod.mk, but it seems there is >>no similar facility in kern.post.mk. Maybe it would be worth having >>KERNOWN and KERNGRP as well. >> >>I can submit a patch if asked. >> >> > >I'm trying to think where this would be useful outside your particular >situation. I'm not sure there is a lot of use. > It's also useful when doing a build inside a jail as flags cannot be changed insode a jail. I got around it by replacing 'chflags' in the jail by a shell script the does nothing :-). > >The official way to do what you are looking to do is to mount it the other >way. On the build machine export the src/obj directories and mount them on >the target machine. Then execute your make install from the target >machine. Otherwise you run into problems like you are running into. >Especially if you're running an install as a non-root user. > > >
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