On 11/29/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 11/29/05 10:34 CST: > > > Just thought of another advantage of the fake root method. If the > > package installation fails for some reason, we don't have an half > > installed package in the final destination. For example, when the user > > is building gcc in BLFS and he runs into a problem during make > > install. > > Though I've never seen a situation where I 'ran into a problem during > make install', I suppose it could happen. > > Probably about as many times that you'd have a problem copying files > from the fake root into the final destination. :-)
I agree with Tushar that this is a good reason for fakeroot. I have had the exact situation he's describing before. When your building a package and following a known good recipe (a la BLFS), this is unlikely, but it happens. It's not pleasant to deal with. Either way, I still don't think it belongs in the base LFS book. I'd like to see a fully fleshed out hint, though. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
