On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:27:52AM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > dpkg --root=dir/ --force-non-root ? (Not tested, just from the manpage) > Or maybe fakeroot can help.
i think the problem was the fact that pre/post isnt scripts are not aware of --root=dir (this actually invokes chroot() i think, which will always fail for anyone but real root) > Is this also the way the Base System is made by the boot-floppies package? they use chroot() iirc. > And we also have dpkg-deb -x file.deb dir/ for the dirty non-managed > extraction-only things. ar -x and tar -zxpf also work, but its alot of work for say emacs... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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