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Re: pbuilder - root privileges? (was: Re: Orig tarball naming)



On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:03:51PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
> I think you need root privileges to actually enter the chroot jail.
> Other than that, it does seem like it should be possible to build the
> chroot image entirely in a fakeroot world, but I remember having tried
> this and failing.

You'd have to acquire real root privileges from inside the fakeroot,
since the faked filesystem permissions go away as soon as that fakeroot
process dies ...

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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