Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> writes:
> With the above approach, the only hard question is how to set the
> ownership during the package build. fakeroot handles this just fine,
> but it does require the user/group to be present on the build
> system, which will not always be the case. Is there an alternative
> means to set/override the ownership during packing of a tarfile?
Shouldn't be to hard to make fakeroot also create fake users and groups
specified in debian/passwd and debian/group (or similar).
That just leaves the question of wether dpkg uses uid/gid or symbolic
names when unpacking debs.
MfG
Goswin
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