On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 03:22:46AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Yes; well eveyone needs some level of 'root'ness when creating .debs, > since files in debs, by policy, should be owned by root. fakeroot > lets you pretend a file is owned by root without bothering to su and > all that.
If I understand this correctly, our petitioner was running the install target for his library and failed with ldconfig. Now, since this step is optional when creating a DEB, fakeroot suffices to prevent make from returning an error status for the impossible command (given that he was not root.) However, since fakeroot won't really promote a file from joe-user to root, he still needs to run something like sudo to build the deb. If this is so, is there any compelling reason to use fakeroot in this circumstance?
