No doubt, something in the underlying implementation of __lxstat64 has
changed for those CentOS and Debian platforms that is causing
our hack to not work.

> On Jan 15, 2019, at 8:28 PM, Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> Great work, thank you Jim!
> 
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 3:29 AM Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
> 
>> OK, so I've been doing some digging and it looks like the reason for the
>> above is because we need to fool epm (and dpkg et. al.) into thinking we
>> are root in order to correctly build the DEB packages.
>> 
>> The problem is that this is really, really system specific and even OS
>> version specific.
>> 
>> Most Linux have 'fakeroot' which is the canonical (no pun intended) way of
>> doing this. Sooooo I'll be patching trunk (and AOO42X) to look for
>> 'fakeroot' and use that if available. If not, then we takes our chances w/
>> getuid.
>> 
>> Cheers!
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