Bug#37615: source command should try to become root

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.3.6
> Severity: Wishlist

[Heh, please restict your line length to 70-72 chars!!]
>   In order to build Debian packages you have to be root or running under a
> fakeroot-style environment.  It would be helpful if apt-get could
> automatically 
> attempt to run dpkg-buildpackage through (for example) fakeroot.
> Not that it's 
> too much trouble to prefix apt-get source with fakeroot, but this would make
> building packages as a non-root user even easier than it already is..

Have you looked at the debuild program in devscripts?  Already does
this.  I agree that it would be nice if dpkg-buildpackage could have a
config file which could specify a default gain-root-commond.  (Already
a wishlist bug for devscripts ;)

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
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