Hmm. My first attempt to post this was eaten somewhere along the line. Let's try again...
>>>>> "Michelle" == Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michelle> Am 2005-03-03 21:13:16, schrieb Justin Pryzby: >> Is dh_installdocs being called by the "binary" rule? >> >> Rereading your original message, it is not clear if that particular >> invocation of debian/rules is with fake root privlidges. >> Empirically, "binary" and "clean" have fakeroot, and "build" does >> not. Michelle> Where is it written ? I was reading all maintainer/developer Michelle> manuals/references... Well, he said "empirically"... Michelle> __( '/home/michelle.konzack/src/stuffit-520/debian/rules' Michelle> / | #!/usr/bin/make -f | # | # Rules for making ... Michelle> | build: directories decompress install build is supposed to just compile. It doesn't install. >From the Policy Manual, section 4.8: "The build target must not do anything that might require root privilege." ... Michelle> | binary: Again, from Policy section 4.8: "The binary target must be all that is necessary for the user to build the binary package(s) produced from this source package." Hence binary should depend on build, install, etc. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
