Re: .tmp_depmod owned by root after modules_install

[Christian Kujau]

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On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 at 02:49, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when building a kernel with O=$DIR, I noticed that "modules_install" now 
> creates files under $DIR as root:
> 
> $ sudo make -C /usr/local/src/linux-2.6-git O=$HOME/trash/tmp/. modules_install
> [...]
> 
> When trying to build a new kernel, removing $DIR as a normal user does no 
> longer work as everything under $HOME/trash/tmp/.tmp_depmod/ is now owned 
> by root (because of the "sudo"). This did not occur before and may be a 
> consequence of:
> 
>   commit bfe5424a8b31624e7a476f959d552999f931e7c7
>   Author: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
>   Date:   Thu Jun 9 16:35:41 2011 +0200
> 
>     kbuild: Hack for depmod not handling X.Y versions
> 
> Can this be changed somehow so that "make modules_install" does not write 
> anything under $DIR, as before?
> 
> Thanks,
> Christian.
> -- 
> BOFH excuse #274:
> 
> It was OK before you touched it.
> 

-- 
BOFH excuse #188:

..disk or the processor is on fire.
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