Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot
Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:19:35PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>> Hi all
>
>> Can someone please tell me the difference between
>
>> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
>> fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage
>> fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
>
>> Which one should I use for building packages in Debian?
>
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot.
>
> 'fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage' runs the build target under fakeroot, which
> is undesirable primarily because Debian 'build' targets are required to
> not depend on root privileges, and running them under fakeroot can hide
> bugs of this nature.
>
> 'fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' is a double-invocation of fakeroot
> which may fail altogether.
>
Thank you Nico, Thomas and Steve. Your replies answered my questions and
helped me a lot.
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
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