On 10/6/06, Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 09:27:19AM -0400, Charles Lepple wrote:
> > I invite someone with better knowledge of this switch to correct me,
> > but this is where I would use "--build-as-nobody". That way, you
> > should get errors when the install process tries to write outside of
> > %i (/sw/src/fink.build/root-*), such as directly in /sw.
>
> Yup...that's exactly why we have that flag.

Are there any caveats, though? Wasn't there a warning somwhere about
this switch not producing working binary packages? (It works for me,
but my packages haven't done anything complicated with permissions.)

-- 
- Charles Lepple

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