Hi, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Brian O'Reilly <fade@deepsky.com> [2002.09.14.2356 +0200]: > > The vpopmail package insists on being built by the root user, which has > > obvious implications when it comes time to sign the generated package... > > how do you deal with issues like this where there's a real mismatch > > between the maintainer field and the UID building a package? > > man fakeroot > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot Normally, you're right, but: There may be some pkgs refusing to build under fakeroot (there are some I read of IIRC). If that's the case here, you can set DEBFULLNAME="..." and DEBEMAIL="..." and then -- if it's necessary -- use the -k option to dpkg-buildpackage. Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' rene@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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