Svante Signell, on mer. 18 oct. 2017 13:51:25 +0200, wrote: > On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 11:54 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 11:57:55 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > > Building some packages for GNU/Hurd has been impossible in the > > > past, since also tests are run under fakeroot. > > > > Is there some reason why this would be Hurd-specific? Is fakeroot's > > emulation of real root significantly more limited on Hurd, or do the > > Hurd buildds invoke builds differently, or something? > > The problems was revealed when fakeroot was flaky (native > implementation). That fakeroot problem is now solved.
It's also not always flakiness. Sometimes there are just several ways to emulate root behavior, and the hurdish implementation happened to use a different one from the non-Hurd fakeroot. Samuel
