On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:14:35AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 30 janvier 2010 à 22:58 +0000, Jon Dowland a écrit : > > I need to run a command as the superuser inside > > game-data-packager (gdp). Up until now, I've been > > hardcoding a sudo invocation and depending on sudo. > > Why do you need to run anything as root in a packaging tool? > > Aren’t you looking for fakeroot instead? gdp, by default, invokes dpkg to install the generated .deb file. > I’ve been asking to move su-to-root to xdg-utils or > debianutils, but the situation is still stuck. That sounds sensible. Is there anything I can do to help? It looks like there might need to be a bit more join-the-dots between su-to-root and d-i's "disable root" question (to prime $SU_TO_ROOT_SU properly) -- Jon Dowland
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