Re: how to do science with amd64 lenny

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 07:17:26PM +0200, Lothar Ketterer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:35:50PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Very good point.  Then just switch to root for the dpkg -i part.
> > 
> > 'dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot -b' it is then.
> 
> I forgot to mention that this only makes sense because "apt-get
> source <package>" doesn't require root permissions and can
> (should) be called as normal user. Write permissions for the
> current working directory are necessary, of course.

I wonder if apt-get source -b automatically adds fakeroot when not
running as root.  I should try that.

-- 
Len Sorensen