Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot

2007-07-27 Thread Ondrej Certik
Do you know why it does that? I'm curious about exactly what fails. mailagent, for example, has checks to see if some files are (correctly) unreadable, which would fail if the check was run as root. I actually check to see if the check is being run as root, and, if so, su to

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot

2007-07-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:06:44 +0200, Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I also vaguely recall some actions which work as an ordinary user but fail under fakeroot; due to a difference in behaviour. I no longer can recall the details, though, so I could be mistaken.

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot

2007-07-17 Thread Ondrej Certik
I also vaguely recall some actions which work as an ordinary user but fail under fakeroot; due to a difference in behaviour. I no longer can recall the details, though, so I could be mistaken. The bzr test suite, for one. Or libslepc2.3.2 configure refuses to configure tha

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot

2007-07-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:50:32AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:46:13 -0700, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 'fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage' runs the build target under fakeroot, which is undesirable primarily because Debian 'build' targets are required

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot

2007-07-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:46:13 -0700, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 'fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage' runs the build target under fakeroot, which is undesirable primarily because Debian 'build' targets are required to not depend on root privileges, and running them under fakeroot can hide

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot

2007-07-11 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:19:35PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Hi all Can someone please tell me the difference between dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot Which one should I use for building

dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot

2007-07-10 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Hi all Can someone please tell me the difference between dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot Which one should I use for building packages in Debian? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot

2007-07-10 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-10 20:22]: Can someone please tell me the difference between dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage In this case the two are equivalent I think (apart from the process perspective). But you can use other programs

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot

2007-07-10 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 14:19 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Hi all Can someone please tell me the difference between dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot dpkg-buildpackage uses fakeroot when being a normal user doesn't suffice. fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage dpkg-buildpackage is run 100

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot

2007-07-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:19:35PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Hi all Can someone please tell me the difference between dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot Which one should I use for building packages in Debian? dpkg