Re: RFS: brightd
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:38:49 -0500 Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
> > Hm, could you explain that a bit more? I need the binary setuid-root,
> > so $USER is able to write to /sys/class/backlight/
> > I previously used install -M 4755 in debian/rules, but this did not
> > work, because I don't build as root : (
>
> Oh, ok. Well, packages *need* to be built as root, precisely so that
> they can have any set of needed ownerships and permissions. You can
> use fakeroot to do the build.
I _USE_ fakeroot.
And after the install /usr/bin/brightd is 0755, because only root (and
not fakeroot) can setuid - if this would not be like this, everyone
could create suidroot binaries...
So can I just chmod in debian/rules and hope the package will be
rebuild as root on the buildds?
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