Re: root for ./mkipks

From: Bruno David Rodrigues <bruno.rodrigues.a.t.litux.org>
Date: Sun Jun 23 2002 - 09:29:50 EDT

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 10:14, Nikitas wrote:
> Is there a specific reason that mkipks requires root priveleges?
> From a quick look I see that this is only used to set the user
> and group ownership of /tmp/ipk[package number] to root.
> I fail to see why that is necessary...
>
> P.S. Holger, I'll have a look at the Makefile to see if there is something
> wrong with clean.

If you use debian, you can do
fakeroot ./mkipkg ...

>
> Regards :)
>
> Nikitas
>
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Received on Sun Jun 23 13:29:55 2002

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