On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 20:26:15 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > I saw much talk about fakeroot not working with the new glibc, much talk > about it being difficult to fix, and no talk about it being fixed.
Actually, AFAIK most of this talk was about /libtricks/ which was a new approach to doing what fakeroot does (it provided a "fakeroot" binary as well); that approach did turn out not to be usable for glibc2.1. The current fakeroot in potato is based on the old approach, and works fine. Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig