Re: How do I control ownership of installed package files?

[cjwatson@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

harpo@udlug.org wrote:
>For situations where you need a file in debian/tmp to be owned by
>somebody other than root, don't use fakeroot to build the package,
>because it forces everything to look like it's owned by root.  Use
>sudo.

That's not true:

  [cjw44@riva ~]$ fakeroot
  [root@riva ~]# touch foo
  [root@riva ~]# chown bin foo
  [root@riva ~]# ls -l foo
  -rw-rw-r--    1 bin      root            0 Jul 19 21:40 foo

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]