On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 02:38:16AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > It is bad advice for someone asking help about fakeroot to tell them > to also use sudo or super. Pick one and one only.
I read that he needed to have root priviledges as I have when creating packages. I didn't see him asking for help with fakeroot. > If you even think that Linux itself will even *let* you do this, you > need to do a little RTM'ing. I did one better. I tried it. > fakeroot simple *pretends* it is creating files with an ownership of > root or what-have you. It doesn't actually do any such thing. Try it. When I tried it, I saw it changing the permissions and ownership of my sample file. On trying it again, it doesn't. I'd guess I was in a root shell, but I remember trying to run the commands with and without fakeroot and seeing an error when I didn't. Oh well. Fakeroot looks like a fine tool for avoiding permission denied errors. Cheers.
