Re: Building packages with fakeroot

[Christopher C Chimelis <chris@classnet.med.miami.edu>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Bart Warmerdam wrote:

> I would like to warn all those of us who upload packages using fakeroot. I
> have a strong suspicion that fakeroot is not working reliable. There are three
> packages already I uploaded where postinst scripts try to chown files to my 
> user instead of root.

Try the fakeroot I just uploaded.  I didn't do anything to it except
compile it, but see if it solves any probs that you've run into.  I run
all of my builds as root (I know...it's not great, but it works ALL of the
time), so I can't comment on fakeroot much.

C