Where can I get kernel-source pacakge for kernel-2.6.8-1.541?

Matias Feliciano feliciano.matias at free.fr
Tue Sep 28 03:30:01 UTC 2004


Le mar 28/09/2004 à 05:03, Per Bjornsson a écrit :
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 19:50, N.A. wrote:
> > > I would STRONGLY suggest creating your own .rpmmacros file before
> > > doing any src.rpm installation so you can define an rpm staging area
> > > in your user's home directory instead of being root user and using
> > > /usr/src/redhat/  for the src.rpm operations.
> > 
> > May I know why? Security reason?
> 
> Exactly. While Arjan's kernel RPMs are unlikely to do anything
> particularly horrible, spec file bugs can clobber your system if you run
> rpmbuild as root,

No need of rpmbuild bugs. Suppose you are in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and
want to clear up BUILD :
# rm -r -f ../BUILD /*
                   ^ Ooops

>  and there is really no reason to do so. Thus it just
> makes more sense to build RPMs as a regular user, and just install them
> as root. (If you're really anal about it, you can even have a special
> user for building RPMs, just to make sure that it can't clobber anything
> important at all.) That way certain packaging errors are not only
> harmless, they can also easily be seen in the build process.
> 
> /Per
> 
> -- 
> Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
> Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
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