On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 05:31:05PM -0500, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > To build sendmail, I used: "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" from my > normal id (cowboy). > > Everything seemed to go fine except for a few items: > 1) Needing root to rm debian/tmp (everthing was owned by cowboy.cowboy) > 2) PGP expected to find my {sec/pub}ring.pgp in / (instead of > cowboy/.pgp/{sec/pub}ring.pgp) > > Are these prompts normal? I expected to be prompted for my passphrase, > but the other prompts took me by surprise.
This is quite strange. I too use 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot', and I don't have problems with PGP or needing to become root. Can someone else comment on this? Adam Klein