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Re: Bug#395262: "Arch: all" package FTBFS due to test needing network access - RC?



[Goswin von Brederlow]
> Real or fake makes no difference. Anything that test id or file
> permissions will (hopefully) behave the same with fakeroot.

Ahh, the difference between theory and practice.  fakeroot does not
emulate the access(2) system call, which is one obvious thing to use
when testing file permission functionality.  As a result, some things
do in fact behave differently under fakeroot than as root.

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