Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Buildd do build packages as root, AFAIK >> >> They don't. I don't think any of them do. > > AFAIK, all of them do. Some packages can't be built with fakeroot, but > must be built with sudo; to avoid having to build some packages twice, > we build everything with sudo (at least my buildd's do).
No, the majority of buildds now use fakeroot and have for some time. There aren't any packages these days that don't work with fakeroot. I'd recommend upgrading your buildd(s) to using fakeroot unless there's another reason you can't (e.g. fakeroot doesn't work on your architecture reliably - which use to be the case for mips/el, IIRC). -- James
