Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

So, there's a first version of fakeroot sitting in
   ftp://rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl/debian/upload


It still has severe limitations (for example, it only overloads stat etc,
not the fstat counterparts, but most things I tried used fstat[1]).

Also, as I didn't have a dpkg for libc6 (and I couldn't compile
it myself, don't have aclocal -- anyone knows where taht is?),
I couldn't even test fakeroot on building itself. But I have a strong
feeling it would have worked otherwise. And anyway, you
get a root prompt if you type

  $ fakeroot /bin/bash -l

and then you can do stuff like

  # touch file;          ls -al file;
  # chown root:adm file; ls -l file;
  # mknod block b 3 1;   ls -l block; 

Note that the LD_PRELOAD stuff only works for programmes that
are libc6 compiled (rather libc-same as libfakeroot.so.0.0), so
you'll also need libc versions of gzip, tar, fileutils. But those
packages at least are compileable.


footnote
[1] I'm caching the "fake stat data" fully inode-based now, so wrapping
    fstat (and fchown, ...) isn't any more difficult than stat. It's just
    that I didn't do it yet.


in short: it looks like there's nothing to stop me from making a 
working fakeroot package, but it's not this release isn't yet.

-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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