On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 06:55, Josip Rodin wrote: > Since the binary target is invoked as root (be it fakeroot or su or > whatever, it doesn't matter), and the clean rule needs to clean out the > debian/tmp or equivalent directories, it needs root as well.
Not with fakeroot: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:test_fakeroot$ ls -l total 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:test_fakeroot$ fakeroot mkdir -p a/b/c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:test_fakeroot$ ls -lR .: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 anthony anthony 4096 Mar 17 12:33 a ./a: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 anthony anthony 4096 Mar 17 12:33 b ./a/b: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 anthony anthony 4096 Mar 17 12:33 c ./a/b/c: total 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:test_fakeroot$ rm -Rf a [EMAIL PROTECTED]:test_fakeroot$ ls -lR .: total 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:test_fakeroot$