On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi Faheem,
Faheem Mitha wrote:
Thanks for the quick response. Is the patch going to be applied to
the Debian package? If I understand the thread and your response
correctly, this patch would make the package build when using
fakeroot. Usage of fakeroot is standard in Debian, afaik. At least,
I have always used it, and I think the building of at least some
Debian packages would fail without it.
Maybe. The usual procedure is
debian/rules build
fakeroot debian/rules binary
or
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
or
debuild
none of which would runs tests as root. On the other hand, using any
of these methods is extra hassle and if I can make it easier for
people to build git, I would like to.
Um, to be clear, i ran 'debuild binary' as normal user, as I always do, to
get the error you saw. 'debuild binary' uses fakeroot. Not sure what you
mean by 'run tests as root'. My understanding of the thread you pointed me
to was fakeroot was 'root-like' enough to upset the git tests. :-)
Could you apply the patches from that thread[1] or pull/clone from
git://repo.or.cz/debian-git/jrn.git for-faheem
and let me know how it goes?
Can do, sure. Does that mean you'll consider applying the patch?
Thanks. Faheem.
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