* Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080721 09:25]:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Reema Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In building debian packages,why do you require root privileges and so we
> > have to use fakeroot..?
>
> fakeroot is not necessary now with new dpkg.
Reading through the changelogs, I only find in a change Oct 2007 that
dpkg-buildpackage uses fakeroot without being told so.
I doubt it is possible to build proper packages without root/fakeroot
or whatever else causing programs to think they run as root and
preserving user and permissions of files not representable as mere
user.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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"Never contain programs so few bugs, as when no debugging tools are available!"
Niklaus Wirth
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