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Re: darwin-drivers digest, Vol 2 #166 - 3 msgs

> Under darwin 6.0 (os x 10.2) the kernel now enforces some security on
> kexts by requiring they be owned by root, be in the wheel group, and
> probably have mode 755 on the directories.
>
> This makes doing ProjectBuilder builds really tough when running the
> build as a regular user and not root. Yep, PB complains that it can't
> overwrite the kext because of ownership.
>
> It's a real pain to go in and "sudo rm -rf my.kext" every time I want
> to build it and then "sudo chown -R root:wheel my.kext" afterwards.
>
> Anyone have a slick way of setting up PB so it can get around this?

Don't install the kext from within the build folder and you can avoid
both of your problems. All you need to do is copy the kext to the /tmp
directory first and then install it from there. Doing so will
automatically update the permissions for the package and will also
leave your build copies alone.

Try this:

% sudo cp -R my.kext /tmp

Brent
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