On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:45:54PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 08:11:41AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > >If I run 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' as root, files belong to root, > > >which looks saner, but it doesn't ask for any GPG key. > > > > Install the devscripts package and use 'debuild' instead, which has the > > added bonus that it automatically does a lintian check for you. > > Actually, his problem is probably that he doesn't have GPG set up correctly, > because dpkg-buildpackage would have run it otherwise, debuild isn't needed > for that.
Perhaps the problem is that he was running dpkg-buildpackage _as root_, so it was not finding his GPG key (which is probably in ~user/.gnupg, not ~root/.gnupg). The correct way to use fakeroot is to run 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' as a normal user. -- - mdz
