Re: .ipk File Ownership

James ''Wez'' Weatherall wrote:
>
> Stupid question: What does fakeroot actually do?

Excerpt from man page:

DESCRIPTION
       fakeroot runs a command in an environment were it appears
       to have root privileges for file manipulation. This is
       useful for allowing users to create archives (tar, ar,
       .deb etc.) with files in them with root permissions/owner­
       ship.

Geeetings,
Oliver

> > James ''Wez'' Weatherall wrote:
> > >
> > > I have problems setting my files to be root-owned. A solution we could
> > > have, in ipkg-build, is to have it use the --owner=root option when it
> tars
> > > the control and data files. This will allow people to develop stuff as
> any
> > > user and then to have the "correct" user in the final package.
> >
> > For Debian, you can use fakeroot (1), it was written for exactly that
> > purpose. I do not know about other distributions, but I am sure you can
> > compile it for yours.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Oliver
> > --
> > oliver.kurth@innominate.com
> > software engineer innominate AG
> >
> > tel: +49.30.308806-0 fax: -77 www.innominate.com
> >
> >

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