Re: Some ideas and concerns regarding fakeroot

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@miriam.fuller.edu>]

I would say always check in the real root as well for a stat.
IF the package modifies its behaviour then the maintainer needs to edit the
Makefiles and simply comment the check out.

: I like the idea. There's one thing I'm not sure about, though: stat().

: Suppose we've got two packages, foo and bar. One does, in the make install:

:   if test -f /etc/foo-info; then
:     process /ect/foo-info, do things with info, 
:     and install the foo accordingly;
:   else
:     echo /etc/foo-info missing. Please create this file and re-run make info.
:   fi

: So, surely, for foo we want 
:   stat(file that lives in /, but not in VIRTUAL_ROOT/etc)
: to give the stat of / anyway.


: But now take bar, that does:

:   if test -f /etc/bar-info; then
:     echo /etc/bar-info doesn't exist yet. Creating it.
:     echo "bartender=" `hostname` > /etc/bar-info
:   else
:     echo /etc/bar-info already exist, good. Not creating it.
:   fi

: So, surely, for bar we want 
:   stat(file that lives in /, but not in VIRTUAL_ROOT/etc)
: _not_ to give the stat of /.

: How is fakeroot going to distinguish between the two?


: -- 
: joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
: #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
: $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
: lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
: #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/


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