On 2018-02-15 23:39, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > I'm trying to test my package by running "ebuild /path/to/pkg.ebuild > > install". Naturally (for me) I do this as an unprivileged user, not > > as root. It fails because at least some steps such as dobin need to > > give away ownership of the files being installed. I tried to run > > the whole thing including compilation under fakeroot but that > > doesn't help.
> That should usually "just work". > > Did you use fakeroot directly (bad), or did you add "fakeroot" to > FEATURES in make.conf (good)? The former. I didn't know about the feature. Is it safe to enable it for "production" runs as well? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
