Re: how to avoid that install.sh goes mad, if I am not root?

From: WANG Cong
Date: Fri Jan 21 2011 - 07:50:03 EST


On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:47:56 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>
> First, at least on x86, the kernel will look for the 'installkernel'
> executable first in your own ~/bin/, so if you have that then it will
> override /sbin/installkernel.
>

That still doesn't look like a good solution.

/me is thinking if we should have a new Kconfig for this, e.g.
CONFIG_INSTALL_KERNEL whose default value is "/sbin/installkernel".

Cheers.

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