Re: required to be root? (Was: Debian development using ...)
> 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.
Yeah, it is perhaps a bug...
> What do folks do to get around this problem?
I just made a symlink into my user account's .pgp directory, like thus
ln -s ~jgoerzen/.pgp ~root/.pgp
Works for me. I don't try to modify PGP or anything as root, so it should be
OK.
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