Re: OT: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage
On Mon, 26 May 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I build kernel packages without fakeroot, since I'm running my scripts
> as root.
There's no reason to ever build any packages as root. It's not
necessary, and can lead to overwriting files that you want if there are
bugs in the build scripts.
> I read several times on Debian user, that others tried to use fakeroot
> to build Debian packages, but it didn't work.
fakeroot occasionally has bugs,[1] but considering that the entire
Debian package archive is built using it, it should work well enough for
doing what you're doing.
1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=fakeroot;dist=unstable
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