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Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs



On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 08:41:54AM -0800, Oscar Levi wrote:

> I'd let this drop, but I think I'm gonna learn somthing.
> 
> How is it that you created files owned by root without ever changing
> your uid to root?  
> 
>   fakeroot chown root.root FILENAME
> 
> doesn't do it, right?

No, it doesn't. But it does what you need. Try this:

$ fakeroot bash
$ whoami
$ ls -l
$ rm /etc/passwd (don't try rm -rf /, you'll get a nasty surprise)
$ passwd root
$ exit

read fakeroot(1)

							Marcelo


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