On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 06:42:07PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:14:35AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le samedi 30 janvier 2010 à 22:58 +0000, Jon Dowland a écrit : > > > I need to run a command as the superuser inside > > > game-data-packager (gdp). Up until now, I've been > > > hardcoding a sudo invocation and depending on sudo. > > > > Why do you need to run anything as root in a packaging tool? > > > > Aren’t you looking for fakeroot instead? > > gdp, by default, invokes dpkg to install the generated .deb > file.
So what you are looking for is not a way to run something as root, but a way to install a package as a user, which is different. Something like apt-daemon is probably what you are looking for. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
