Re: required to be root? (Was: Debian development using ...)
Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com> wrote:
>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.
>
>What do folks do to get around this problem?
I have a special account on my system called, appropriately enough,
"debian". This account has full access to root priviledges through
sudo: I login as debian, and to build a package, run the command:
dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo
This builds the package, taking up root priviledges only when needed.
Signing files happens without root access.
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