Re: fakechroot - anyone using it, should I consider hijacking it?
The fakechroot project was a rather experiment and the workaround for systems
without root privileges. If you'd like to improve it, please feel free to do
it.
It is hosted on Alioth (and SVN repo at svn://svn.debian.org/fakechroot/), so
I can add more developers to project easly. I'm open for other solutions.
On poniedziałek, 12 marca 2007, Mark Eichin wrote:
> fakechroot is a great idea for reducing the privileges needed for
> pbuilder builds, and thus simplifying developer builds of packages.
>
> However, if you look at the current bug set, it turns out that there
> are half dozen bugs that actually get in the way of using it for that
> purpose (there are another half dozen that I found by inspection but
> haven't come up with tests for or evidence of actual impact on builds,
> whereas everything currently filed in the BTS gets in the way of
> specific actual usage.)
>
> In the month since I started working with it, I haven't heard anything
> from the author/maintainer (apparently they're the same, Piotr
> Roszatycki <dexter@debian.org>.) It looks like he's been doing some
> things with other packages as recently as the end of 2006, though he
> hasn't touched this particular one since 2005 - so he's not actually
> MIA in general, just in regard to the package *I* care about :-)
>
> The changes seem a bit dramatic for an NMU (touching many functions,
> several macros that are broadly used, adding new environment
> variables) and it's made more complicated by him apparently being the
> upstream as well.
>
> So:
> * does anyone else find fakechroot useful and would benefit from the
> heavily-repaired version?
> * anyone know him, and can perhaps find out what's up?
> * since he's upstream, does it make more sense to fork and package
> that? (on technical grounds, it clearly doesn't, but...)
> * should I just be patient and wait and see? (I've got my own build,
> after all, and this is too late for etch anyhow...)
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.''`. Piotr Roszatycki
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