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    scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable · 05ba4488
    Jonathan Nieder authored
    Let the deb-pkg target acquire (fake) root privileges before
    running commands that need them.  Without such privileges,
    deb-pkg errors out because chown fails.
    
    The new KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable, if defined, is used as a
    command to run other commands with possibly fake elevated
    privileges.  Since this is not needed for the tar-pkg and rpm-pkg
    targets, it is only used by deb-pkg.  If it is not defined, the
    behavior is as before, and the user will have to rerun make as
    root.
    
    In other words, as a shortcut, instead of running 'make oldconfig &&
    make && fakeroot -u make deb-pkg', one can use the single command
    'make oldconfig deb-pkg KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD="fakeroot -u"'.
    Suggested-by: default avatarRyan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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