On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 01:33:56AM +0200, Samuel Amo wrote: > I just tried "fakeroot make deb-pkg" of the Linux Kernel sources, and > when it tries to do its "chown -R root:root $pdir" (from > scripts/package/builddeb) it fails with a "chown: invalid group: > 'root:root' ". > > Trying to narrow down, one finds that, once inside a fakeroot shell, a > "chgrp root <file>" fails for any file > with 'chgrp: invalid group: 'root'' > > Expected output: just change the group without error.
I can't reproduce this. What are the outputs of `fakeroot id` and `getent group root` ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

