linux-kernel - Re: [bisected] broken make-kpkg kernel build in 3.15-rc1

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1404151221360.26992@gentwo.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:22:51 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
cc:	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [bisected] broken make-kpkg kernel build in 3.15-rc1

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, Michal Marek wrote:

> > The problem is that the kernel build process should not write to anything
> > in the /etc/apt directory.
>
> Again: make install starts /sbin/installkernel and the rest is the job
> of this script. Which means you need to debug Debian's
> /sbin/installkernel why it suddenly wants to modify files in /etc/apt.

Why then does reverting the patch fix the issue?

Something in the patch causes install process to not divert correctly to
the install directory. It tries to go to the / directory instead.

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