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Re: More an autopackage
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Rusty Ballinger |
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Re: More an autopackage |
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Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:42:54 -0800 |
> > This module may be very valuable for you if you want to create packages
> > not as root. GNU tar cannot be tricked into hardcoding the ownership
> > different from the actual ones (as far as I know).
>
> You can use 'fakeroot' (now called 'libtricks' I think) from Debian.
> It is essentially an LD_PRELOAD that overrides getuid/open etc. and
> makes a process think that it's executing as root.
(What packaging systems only let you create packages as root, and why do
they do that? I know rpm *wants* you to be root, but you don't have to
be...)
--Rusty
Re: More an autopackage, Michael Sweet, 2001/01/22
RE: More an autopackage, Bernard Dautrevaux, 2001/01/22