On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 10:18:50AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Most liekly this is so. I would reccomend that people *not* use fakeroot if > > > you're building anything with suid permissions or other abnoramilities. It > > > is badly broken. > > When did this happen? > > I suepect when we switched to libc6 2.1, but I don't really know. I thought the proper way to do things was to leave things normal permission and make them suid/sgid in postinst if suidregister isn't available .... debhelper and fakeroot should have nothing to do with things in such a case. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * dark has changed the topic on channel #debian to: Later tonight: After months of careful refrigeration, Debian 2.0 is finally cool enough to release.
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