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Re: More an autopackage
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Steve Robbins |
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Re: More an autopackage |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:34:34 -0500 |
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:49:04PM -0500, Michael Sweet wrote:
> Rusty Ballinger wrote:
> > ...
> > (What packaging systems only let you create packages as root, and
> > why do they do that? I know rpm *wants* you to be root, but you
> > don't have to be...)
>
> Debian's dpkg needs you to run as root; otherwise the files you
> install will be owned by your user & group.
Paraphrasing Rusty Ballinger, dpkg "wants" you to be root,
but you can fake it. I regularly build packages as a non-privileged
user. The LD_PRELOAD tricks that "fakeroot" plays will
result in a tarfile full of "root-owned" files.
-Steve
- Re: More an autopackage, (continued)
- Re: More an autopackage, Ganesan Rajagopal, 2001/01/18
- Re: More an autopackage, Pavel Roskin, 2001/01/22
- Re: More an autopackage, Raja R Harinath, 2001/01/22
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- Re: More an autopackage, Rusty Ballinger, 2001/01/22
- Re: More an autopackage, Michael Sweet, 2001/01/22
- Re: More an autopackage, Derek R. Price, 2001/01/23
- Re: More an autopackage, Ganesan Rajagopal, 2001/01/23
- Re: More an autopackage, Michael Sweet, 2001/01/23
- Re: More an autopackage,
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Re: More an autopackage, Michael Sweet, 2001/01/22
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- Re: More an autopackage, Geoffrey Wossum, 2001/01/22
- Re: More an autopackage, Derek R. Price, 2001/01/22
- Re: More an autopackage, Michael Sweet, 2001/01/22
- Re: More an autopackage, Geoffrey Wossum, 2001/01/22
- Re: More an autopackage, Michael Sweet, 2001/01/23
- Re: More an autopackage, Geoffrey Wossum, 2001/01/23
- Re: More an autopackage, Michael Sweet, 2001/01/23
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