Re: Usage of dpkg under cygwin
On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 10:27 AM, Claes Wallin wrote:
Of course we need to take security seriously, but I'm not convinced
that demanding unnecessary privileges or faking them does that. These
files don't need to be owned by root or seem to be owned by root during
the packaging process - we should be able to just tell tar to override
the fs metadata. I realize that the current system works, but I reserve
the right to call it a silly hack.
And tar does not let you override the fs metadata unless it thinks you
are root. Making a custom version of tar that allowed anyone to do it
would be a silly hack. Fakeroot is not a silly hack. Read the man page.
Note that I'm not talking about the Linux/NT/Cygwin issue, or about
NT at all really, I'm talking about "debian/rules build" in general.
I know, that's why I take these issues so seriously. debian/cygwin will
never become an official port if it can't learn to live with the policy
that works perfectly and better than anything else for 11+ other
platforms and 3+ other kernels. The debian build system is not some
geewiz hack that someone thought of over a weekend or two. It is what
it is through careful evolution and thought out design. Otherwise it
would just be another redhat rpm spec knock off and suck just like it.
--
Paul Baker
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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