Re: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue Dec 05 2006 - 15:37:39 EST



>> You can also use fakeroot(1).
>
>I think that is a debianism... not here on Fedora.

LKML is (hopefully) distro neutral.

That useless line aside, the linux kernel build process supports
creating a cpio archive with privileged things (devices) as a normal
user.

-`J'
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