To continue my story, I am having problem with fakeroot now. Background info first: I have dpkg-dev (as .rpm), debhelper, dh-make and fakeroot (all as .deb) installed on my redhat 7.0 box. They were all built on RH7.0 with no problem and I can use them to build .deb packages flawlessly as REAL root. However, with fakeroot, the building process failed as follows:
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot dpkg-buildpackage: source package is dh-make dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.21 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Craig Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ...... dpkg-buildpackage: build architecture is i386 fakeroot debian/rules clean make: *** user_access: seteuid: Operation not permitted. Stop. It seems to be related to 'make' only, because other commands behaves fine with fakeroot. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Listed below are the version info for relevant tools: $ rpm -q dpkg dpkg-1.9.6-static_1 $ dpkg -l ...... ii debhelper 3.0.41 helper programs for debian/rules ii dh-make 0.21 Debianizing Tool for debhelper ii fakeroot 0.4.4-4.1 Gives a fake root environment. On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:12:54PM -0700, T.R.Y. wrote: > Hi, > > I am experimenting dpkg and friends on redhat system > (packed dpkg-1.9.6 as an rpm and installed). > I would like to know how I can properly initialize package database > (i.e., get all needed file in place under /var/lib/dpkg) so that > this error can be avoided: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bar]# dpkg --admindir=/var/lib/dpkg -l > dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No > such file or directory >
