from the quill of Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
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> "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
>
> > But this is something that should be done with a postinstall script,
> no?
>
> not on this case.
OK, I don't understand why not though.
> was uploaded by fred just after the oxygen release :
>
> (chmou@kenobi)[~]-% rpm -qi $(rpm -qf /usr/bin/fakeroot)
> Name : fakeroot Relocations: /usr
> Version : 0.4.4 Vendor: MandrakeSoft
> Release : 1mdk Build Date: Mon Jan 17
> 16:37:52 2000
> Install date: Mon Jan 17 23:47:57 2000 Build Host:
> kenobi.mandrakesoft.com
> Group : Development/Tools Source RPM:
> fakeroot-0.4.4-1mdk.src.rpm
> Size : 112528 License: GPL
> Packager : Frederic Lepied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Summary : Gives a fake root environment
> Description :
> This package is intended to enable something like:
> fakeroot rpm --rebuild
> i.e. to remove the need to become root for a package build.
> This is done by setting LD_PRELOAD to a "libfakeroot.so.0.0",
> that provides wrappers around chown, chmod, mknod, stat,
> etc.
>
> If you don't understand any of this, you do not need this!
Interesting.
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