Oscar Levi wrote: > > If I understand this correctly, our petitioner was running the install > target for his library and failed with ldconfig. Now, since this step > is optional when creating a DEB, fakeroot suffices to prevent make > from returning an error status for the impossible command (given that > he was not root.) However, since fakeroot won't really promote a file > from joe-user to root, he still needs to run something like sudo to > build the deb. If this is so, is there any compelling reason to use > fakeroot in this circumstance? >
The deb is already built. And the owner of the files is root. Only using fakeroot and /sbin/ldconfig -n. Ionutz
