Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 14:19 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Can someone please tell me the difference between
>
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
dpkg-buildpackage uses fakeroot when being a normal user doesn't
suffice.
> fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg-buildpackage is run 100% in fakeroot.
> fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
That's overkill.
> Which one should I use for building packages in Debian?
If you must use dpkg-buildpackage, I'd say the first. But you should
really use a chroot, maybe not for every rebuild, but for every package.
pdebuild (from pbuilder) is a useful tool here - it can also use
cowdancer's cowbuilder to avoid all the nasty base.tgz unpacking.
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