Re: mpgrafic - mpirun test program as root in automatic build
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Boud Roukema wrote:
>
>> I guess by "both of these" you mean "most of the build steps (apart from
>> the 'debian/rules install' step)"?
>
> What I wrote wasn't clear and wasn't strictly true, sorry!
>
> When manually building from source:
>
> You always build/test as a normal user.
> You install as either root or normal user, depending on the install
> prefix.
>
> When doing Debian package builds:
>
> You always build/test as a normal user.
> You always install using fakeroot.
Also when using cowbuilder? At least I see the whole build done by root
when running in my cowbuilder chroot. That was the point that lead to
the trouble here...
Best
Ole
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