[CentOS] wiki howto on custom kernel
Alfred von Campe
alfred at 110.net
Mon Mar 12 16:02:01 UTC 2007
On Mar 12, 2007, at 10:15, Jim Perrin wrote:
> Building as root is bad practice for all software. This is mostly to
> protect you from bad code. If a cleanup script tries to delete /
> instead of just the buildroot, you'll be in a world of hurt by
> building as root. By building as a normal/restricted user you reduce
> the permissions available to the code, thereby minimizing potential
> damage.
OK, I understand. A (somewhat) related question: can I move the ~/
rpmbuild directory to a different location? My home directory is NFS
mounted, and I'd rather do a build on a local disk. Can I just move
it myself or is there a way to specify this as an option when
installing the fedora-rpmdevtools RPM?
>> 2. Why do these steps not work if you do this as root
>> (i.e., no ~/rpmbuild after fedora-buildrpmtree)?
>
> Root's rpmbuild dir is /usr/src/redhat
Of course, I should have known that.
>> 3. After copying the config file an making one small
>> change with "make xconfig", why are there so many
>> differences in the config file?
>
> Are they actual changes, or is the diff now simply off by a few lines?
Actual changes. And lots of them. The output of diff is over 2,000
lines long. It may be that things just got reordered, but all I did
was a "make xconfig" and change two settings.
>> The first two questions are just intellectual curiosity, but the
>> third one really has me wondering what's going on. I followed the
>> steps in the Wiki, and when I diff'ed the original config file to the
>> one create by "make xconfig" after making two changes in the serial
>> port section, I saw a lot of differences.
>
> Like what?
In order to compare apples to apples, I ran both config files through
the following "filter": sort -u <configfile> | grep -v '^#'. The
resulting output of diff is now only 317 lines, and here are the
first 20 or so:
# diff -wib /tmp/config.orig /tmp/config.new | head -25
2d1
<
21d19
< CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA=y
24a23
> CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
31,32d29
< CONFIG_ACT200L_DONGLE=m
< CONFIG_ACTISYS_DONGLE=m
73a71
> CONFIG_ATM_IDT77252_USE_SUNI=y
99c97
< CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DELKIN=y
---
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DELKIN=m
159a158
> CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y
200,201d198
< CONFIG_COPS_DAYNA=y
< CONFIG_COPS_TANGENT=y
207c204
< CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=m
---
> CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y
212c209
The only changes I intended to make were the following two:
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=20 [from 4]
I may only need one or the other, but I wasn't sure so I changed them
both. Anyway, I thought I followed the recipe to the letter, and I
got all these changes. After I noticed this, I even copied the
config file again and re-ran "make xconfig" and the same thing
happened again.
Alfred
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