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Re: required to be root? (Was: Debian development using ...)



On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
> 
> > I have a question related to this.  It does seem that to
> > build a package one needs to be root.  A consequence of this
> > it that when I run dpkg-buildpackage, it tries to sign the
> > resulting package with the root pgp key.  This doesn't seem
> > correct to me.
> > 
> > What do folks do to get around this problem?
> > 
> I just made sure that the only key on Root's keyring was my dwarf key. Pgp
> uses that to sign my packages.

Yes, I considered that.  At my site, several developers will
have access to root so this wouldn't work in general.

--- Jean Pierre




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