> [*] One extremely annoying discovery was that the libc6 packages > *must be built as root*. Leaving aside the question of *why* > the packages can't be built with fakeroot (or as an ordinary > user, even) -- the Red Hat RPMs do not require you to be root -- > it would have been really nice if the package had checked > for root *first*, rather than running for 4.5 hours and only > then realizing it couldn't finish.
No, it does not need root to be *built*. Notice that debian packages require root in order to run the binary target of the build process (the part where it installs things and builds the .deb's). This is normal, and every package requires it. However, we have fakeroot, which allows us to not have a real root access in order to build packages. Problem is, fakeroot preloads a library to "fake" things. This is bad when working with building a system lib such as glibc. It has caused many bugs before, which is why I explicitly forced the glibc to make sure it was using real root, and not fakeroot. This wont change, and the "4 hours later" problem is a result of the Debian build process, not something specific to glibc. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
