Re: dh_testroot ?
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:50:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Now it's just an annoyance. Only the binary target needs root access.
>
> Not quite. The clean target still should run as root unless you're building
> with fakeroot. For a variety of reasons, many people (and autobuilders
> too, I think) don't use fakeroot all the time.
OK. But the clean target, if carefully written, will fail as non-root
with or without dh_testroot, though.
Hamish
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