On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 18:35 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Murdok Petrovsky wrote these words on 07/03/11 13:15 CST:
> > I've downloaded  and installed fakeroot and fakechroot.
> > 
> > Now my question how can i do make install on fakechroot,
> > 
> > Makepkg of archlinux use fakeroot but nobody can't  explain how it works
> 
> Sorry, can't help you with these. I've never needed or used them.

Neither, but from what I can find online, they're doing some magic with
ptrace and/or LD_PRELOAD. The docs make it sound like they're using some
sort of trick to make child processes think they're running as root when
they're not? Weird...

Simon.

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