Re: PGP and fakeroot
On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 05:31:05PM -0500, Richard A Nelson wrote:
>
> To build sendmail, I used: "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" from my
> normal id (cowboy).
>
> Everything seemed to go fine except for a few items:
> 1) Needing root to rm debian/tmp (everthing was owned by cowboy.cowboy)
> 2) PGP expected to find my {sec/pub}ring.pgp in / (instead of
> cowboy/.pgp/{sec/pub}ring.pgp)
>
> Are these prompts normal? I expected to be prompted for my passphrase,
> but the other prompts took me by surprise.
This is quite strange. I too use 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot', and
I don't have problems with PGP or needing to become root. Can someone
else comment on this?
Adam Klein
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