Re: required to be root? (Was: Debian development using ...)
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
jplejacq >> > I have a question related to this. It does seem that to
jplejacq >> > build a package one needs to be root. A consequence of this
jplejacq >> > it that when I run dpkg-buildpackage, it tries to sign the
jplejacq >> > resulting package with the root pgp key. This doesn't seem
jplejacq >> > correct to me.
One reason why debmake contains the build wrapper is to make sure enough
priviledges are available to do the job of building a package. Invoke
build with sudo (or use the settings mentioned in the README.debian)
and it should work.
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