[Goswin von Brederlow] > Do they fail when you use sudo instead of fakeroot or when you run the > complete build process as root? The usual reason a package fails with sudo is that it assumes the $(PWD) macro will be available, pointing to the current working directory. sudo does not preserve this environment variable, which is often set by interactive shells. > And why do they fail? Is there some specific test they do just to > detect fakeroot or is it a shortcomming of fakeroot that makes the > build suddenyl behave differently and succeed? fakeroot does not emulate root completely. It does not wrap the access(2) systen call, which _should_ pretty much always succeed when run as root. Succeeding can cause a test failure if the test is testing permissions that are supposed to be denied.
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