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Re: Bug#37615: source command should try to become root



On Thu, 13 May 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote:

>   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..

This is entirely possible, set DPkg::Build-Options to "-b -uc -r fakeroot"
in the apt config file or on the command line.

Jason


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