On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Anil Gulecha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Anil Gulecha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i'm in a situation where i need to modify configure.in to add a flag.
>> However, dpkg-buildpackage cribs about not being able to cleanly
>> remove a patch.. this patch being in debian/patched, and also
>> modifying configure.in
>>
>> How do i go about modifying this file to include the previous patch as well?
>>
>
> One of the methods that I've read about is dpatch-edit-patch..
> however, this complains about missing fakeroot. Has anyone worked with
> this command/ found any documentation that works with nexenta?

I've gotten it built for nexenta (years of debian/ubuntu use have
resulted in weird muscle memory associating dpkg-buildpackage with
fakeroot), but it fails horribly. I haven't had time to look at it in
depth, but I think that it might require porting to solaris. It
basically plays LD_PRELOAD tricks to overload all of the functionsl
that get uids off of files (so tarfiles built with it will have files
all owned by root, etc). It allows building any package as a user.
(and ensures that misbehaving software builds/installs don't modify
the build host)
 -nld
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