Re: Working on dpkg during Debconf

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Hello Esteban,

Esteban Manchado Velázquez <zoso@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:21:35PM -0500, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
>> [...]
>> First of all there seem to be at least four distinct areas of testing:
>> 1.) Unit tests for the C parts
>> 2.) Run tests for the C implemented programs
>
>> Part 2 has the big problem that many tests probably need root
>> privileges...
>
>     It seems you need to chroot to a directory when using the --root option.
> Is there any way to chroot while not being the root user? If not, perhaps we
> could use sudo, or something like that, to execute tests...

Can fakeroot and fakechroot help?

Bye, Jörg.
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