2009/11/22 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <[email protected]>
> Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > > 2009/11/21 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <[email protected]>: > > > >> [email protected] wrote: > >> > >>> On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:24:58 -0300 > >>> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> Andrea Scarpino wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Why do you use package() function when the package isn't a splitted > >>>>> package? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> Hello :) > >>>> > >>>> Using both build() and package() is not necessary condition for use > >>>> only with splitted packages, its avoid to use the fakeroot on building > >>>> process that is not needed in 99% of packages. > >>>> > >>>> Good luck! > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Sorry, but I consider the use of fakeroot a good thing, it helps > >>> to reveal errors while packaging/creating the PKGBUILD at least. Don't > >>> know why it should be avoided. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> fakeroot make a table of function pointers for many file manipulation > >> calls, like open(), close(), chmod() and etc -> overhead, slowdowns > >> (small of course) > >> During the build process file perms are not necessary to be "tracked", > >> or at least in 99% of packages. Only during the install process is only > >> needed. > >> > >> If you have an example that breaks this, please let me know ;) > >> > >> -- > >> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) > >> http://www.djgera.com.ar > >> KeyID: 0x1B8C330D > >> Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > Nice feature! I didn't know that using package() avoids using of > fakeroot. > > > > Back to my point. There used to be a problem with compilation of > > amarok1 package from AUR only because of fakeroot and I guess that it > > would also help with building of mplayer (configure crashes under > > fakeroot environment and needs to be patched but maybe it was fixed > > meanwile alongside with amarok1 problem). So in some specific cases I > > can see the point of using separate package() even when the PKGBUILD > > builds only one package. > > > > best, > > Lukas > > > > > ;) > > Most reported crashes on bugtracker are because nvidia libgl, that > conflics with libfakeroot, both uses dlsym() (nvidia i don't know why > does this, fakeroot do this to fill a table of pointer to functions), > the result is a jump to NULL :P > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516024#75 > > > > -- > Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) > http://www.djgera.com.ar > KeyID: 0x1B8C330D > Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D > > > Hi Gerardo can you confirm that there are no (owner) permission issues when building without fakeroot (i.e all owned by user)? I don't see chown anywhere other than extract_sources().
