On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:05:02AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > Hold that thought. We hashed out a few ideas on IRC; more in a few
> > days. Meanwhile, let's assume it will be solved... anything else?
> I missed that discussion, but the obvious approach in fakeroot is user
> autovivification (to bottow a term from perl) on chown.
Or getpwnam(), maybe? How that'd mix in with getpwent() might be
confusing.
Debian packages aren't necessarily built under fakeroot, though, so this
can't necessarily be relied on.
Cheers,
aj
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