Changeset 14d5c7f1

Timestamp:

12/31/2002 08:52:15 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

89e9092

Parents:

1986f02

Message:

added make mandocs

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2250 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/kernel-inst.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter06/kernel-inst.xml

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <sect2>
-<title>Installation of the kernel headers</title>
+<title>Installation of the kernel headers and man pages</title>
 
 <para>We won't be compiling a new kernel yet -- we'll do that when we have
@@ -7 +7 @@
 and copy the header files to where they will be found by these packages.</para>
 
-<para>The kernel headers are copied by running the following commands:</para>
+<para>It is important to note that the files in the kernel source directory
+are not owned by root. Whenever you unpack a package as user root (like we
+do here inside chroot), the files end up having the user and group ID's of
+whatever they were on the packager's computer. This is usually not a
+problem for any other package you install because you remove the source
+tree after the installation. But the Linux kernel source tree is often kept
+around for a long time, so there's a chance whatever userid was used will
+be assigned to somebody on your machine, and that person would get write
+access to the kernel source.</para>
+
+<para>In light of this, you might want to run <userinput>chown
+0.0</userinput> on the linux-&kernel-version; directory to ensure all files
+are owned by user <emphasis>root</emphasis>.</para>
+
+<para>The kernel headers and man pages are installed by running the following
+commands:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>ln -s /static/bin/pwd /bin/pwd &amp;&amp;