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Re: Building packages with fakeroot



On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 12:59:10AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Bart Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> > I would like to warn all those of us who upload packages using fakeroot. I
> > have a strong suspicion that fakeroot is not working reliable. There are three
> > packages already I uploaded where postinst scripts try to chown files to my 
> > user instead of root.
> 
> How do you mean? Can you give an example?
> 

ppp, pam-apps and samba all had a postinst script that tried to chown a file
to bartw.root. The most likely problem is fakeroot. But thats not to say it's
the problem, only a strong suspicion...

> Fakeroot should not effect the postinst scripts..
> 
> Jason
> 


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