On Saturday 25 May 2002 05:52 am, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:46:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
[snip]
> >
> > You are probably not seeing it before because many rpms are build as
> > root and so the rpm2cpio shows the file as root. But since many build
> > rpms as a non-root user most contributed rpms such as the ones that I
> > build are built by a non-root user and the cpio files inside are not
> > root owned.
>
> That sounds mostly like a bug in the .rpm packages to me. Avoiding this
> is exactly why all Debian packages are built with either real root or
> fakeroot; in fact, I think it's why fakeroot was written in the first
> place.
too true. from the fakeroot man page:
fakeroot was specifically written to enable users to create
Debian GNU/Linux packages (in the deb(5) format) without giv
ing them root privileges. This can be done by commands like
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot or debuild -rfakeroot (actually,
-rfakeroot is default in debuild nowadays, so you don't need
that argument).
ben
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