On Sat Jul 14, 2001 at 03:28:15PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:41:31AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > > > > however, If we switched to using genext2fs instead of > > using loop devices to build the filesystems, then using > > fakeroot would work just fine... > > could you provide a pointer? this doesn't appear to be packaged. http://freshmeat.net/projects/genext2fs/ I spent a couple hours hacking it up one day to not automagically squash permissions (it defaults to making everything owned by root) and not mess up filetimes... > even so i think its a bad idea to start mucking around in the build > system this late in the game. especially given this utility has AFAIK > zero testing in building b-f root disks. and there are more important > problems to deal with anyway. Truer words are rarely spoken, -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen email: andersee@debian.org, andersen@lineo.com --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
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