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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@frijolero.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:50:11 -0700
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Subject: Re: [RFC] compat: Add ability to run as non-root
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On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Ozan Çağlayan <ozancag@gmail.com> wrote:
> If the EUID of the process is not 0, assume that get-compat-kernels
> is run as a regular user and extract the downloaded *.deb files
> from debs/ into

> ksrcs/:

How about $HOME/ksrc/ ?

> ksrcs/
> ├── lib
> │   └── modules
> │       ├── 2.6.24-020624-generic
> │       ├── 2.6.25-020625-generic
> │       ├── ...
> │       └── 3.4.4-030404-generic
> └── usr
>     └── src
>         ├── linux-headers-2.6.24-020624
>         ├── linux-headers-2.6.24-020624-generic
>         ├── linux-headers-2.6.25-020625
>         ├── linux-headers-2.6.25-020625-generic
>         ├── ...
>         ├── linux-headers-3.4.4-030404
>         └── linux-headers-3.4.4-030404-generic

Nice!

> If you still want to use your kernel sources under /, run
> get-compat-kernels

Neat!

> or ckmake with 'sudo'.

How about instead having ckmake detect first if you have your
$HOME/ksrc/ and if so use that, otherwise go with the built in stuff ?

> Adjust ckmake to look into ksrcs/lib/modules instead of
> /lib/modules in the EUID != 0.

Likewise -- if $HOME/ksrc/ exists just use that ?

> Finally put ksrcs into .gitignore for not losing the source
> trees after a 'git clean'.
>
> Tested both as root and non-root, works fine.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ozan Çağlayan <ozancag@gmail.com>

Good stuff though thanks!

  Luis