Re: Fakeroot

[Bart Warmerdam <bartw@xs4all.nl>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 07:32:45AM -0400, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Bart Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> > I hope that faure gets updated soon. There are some maintainers that upload for
> > Alpha from faure. These packages have to be compiled again... But they do not
> > show up on the difflist soon (in most of the cases). So maybe a message to
> > -devel is needed to point out the problems and ppl stop uploading untill that
> > time?
> 
> Probably a good idea.  Either way, though, we're a long way away from
> potato release and, undoubtedly, we'll see many more revisions of just
> about everything before then, so we have some time.

I think this works out as well... It's a shame to see ppl working on their
package knowing it's not needed (mmm why does this sound familiar :)


> 
> I'll e-mail the maintainer of faure to see when he's planning on bringing
> it up to glibc 2.1.  In the meantime, I'll post a note in -devel to have

I thought a comment of Jason was to wait for a working fakeroot before
switching. If we notify him maybe he can upgrade soon?

> other developers check the libc version on faure before compiling there
> for potato.  That should curb activity for awhile....

I hope so :)

B.