On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Henning Spruth wrote: > a) "dpkg -l" does not pass the root directory to dpkg-query > > b) "dpkg-checkbuilddeps" has the name /var/lib/dpkg/status hardcoded in it > > My questions: > > 1. Are there patches out already to address these problems?
Nope. > 2. Would the maintainers be interested in accepting patches? Sure. > 3. If I were to fix this, would it be an acceptable approach to use an > environment variable named e.g. DPKG_ROOT (as opposed to command line > switches) to globally set the root directory? This would have the advantage > of (possibly) allowing to build existing package "rule" scripts without > modification. Maybe. Doing a chroot might be the right way to do this.
