Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:44:53 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Riccardo Facchetti <> | Subject | Re: [IDEA] Developers: your opinion badly needed ! (Was: [PATCH] /proc/config.gz) |
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On Sun, 31 May 1998, Horst von Brand wrote:
[...] > There is the machinery for that, and even more... if you do a "make > install", kernel/${ARCH}/boot/install.sh is run from the Makefile there > with the full version, the the bootimage, the system map and the place > where the kernel is to be stored as arguments. You could hack this makefile > to pass the .configure too, and (f.ex. for RedHat systems, which use > /sbin/installkernel to do the final install) hack that one to store .config > as /boot/Config-${version}. > > Secure, but not 100% foolproof. But then, what is? ;-)
Yes. I feel that in some way we have to decide what did it mean for us "secure way", where to stop searching a foolproof method. But I don't want to decide this all for myself. Anyway, first of all I would like to know, from you all, if my work is not just a piece of **** :)
Ciao, Riccardo.
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