Re: fakeroot forcing filemodes
> On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
>
> > As you may be aware, the "fakeroot" package allows execution of commands
> > in an envrionment where getuid(),chown(), chmod(), stat() etc are
> > wrapped to make it appear the user really is root.
> >
> > This allows the use of "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot", so debian packages
> > do not need to be build as root any more (merely fakeroot).
> >
> > But this allows for more: Fakeroot_0.0-7a (just released, due to problems
> > with master only available on ftp://rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl/debian/upload),
> > also (by default) refuses to do things like
> > chmod og-r foo
> > as this is not allowed by the Debian Policy Manual: Section 3.3.8
> > only allows for dirs with mode 04755 or 02775, and files should
> > have at least mode 0644.
> >
> > This was (I think) suggested by Christian Schwarz, and I now really
> > like this feature: Turns out that about every X package that uses
> > xmkmf violates the debian policy, as all manual pages, header files,
> > etc are installed mode 0444 (just filed a bug about this, against xlib6-dev).
>
> (These section have been in the policy manual a long before I took over
> maintainance of it.)
OK, sorry, I remember again, it wasn't you, it was Andreas. Sorry.
> I think we should keep the "should" clause in the policy--most packages
> "should" comply to this, but there may be exceptions. I suggest that you
> change the fakeroot package to issue a warning if a mode less than 644 is
> used, but don't let it fail.
Actually, warnings are very difficult. Eighter chmod returns -1
and sets errno to EPERM, or it returns 0, but making chmod and
friends output anything to stdout/stderr is very tricky (found this
out the hard way when I wanted to generate debugging messages: you
get segfaults etc when you send anythign to stderr too early in the
startup of any programme).
So, as Joey also preferred this, fakeroot-0.0-8 will just default
to "--nodebian", and have the "--debian" option to change that.
--
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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