Re: problem with ldconfig and packaging libs
On Thu 17 Dec 1998, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> The benefit with fakeroot is that you can't screw anything up on the
> system. Say for example you misplace a * with some other things, like ..,
> in an rm -rf statement under clean in the debian/rules file. Guess what
> with sudo you just might screw something up real bad. With fakeroot you
> can only screw up for that user.
You can also trap packaging errors by using fakeroot instead of sudo etc.
E.g. take a look at my bug report against transfig (#30753). There the
bitmaps were installed directly into /usr/wherever instead of
.../debian/tmp/usr/wherever, because of a missing $(DESTDIR). I noticed
error messages while compiling the package for Alpha, whereas the real
maintainer probably uses sudo or so and hence the install into
/usr/wherever succeeded. Result is that the i386 package doesn't
contain the bitmaps...
I've come across a number of such packaging bugs while porting to
Alpha. There's absolutely no reason for _really_ having root
priviledges when building a .deb; whatever gathers the stuff into
the .deb (dpkg-deb I believe) apparently ensures that the files in
the archive have the correct owner.
Paul Slootman
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