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Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot



On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:50:32AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:46:13 -0700, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> said: 
> 
> > '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.
> 
>         I also vaguely recall some actions which work as an ordinary
>  user but fail under fakeroot; due to a difference in behaviour.  I no
>  longer can recall the details, though, so I could be mistaken.

The bzr test suite, for one.

- Matt



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