Running without -u breaks mkinitcpio-git PKGBUILD when running inside the git tree because files will be owned by root instead of the user. This makes git describe believe the tree has changed so it will consider it dirty while git describe outside fakeroot will consider it clean.
References: http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg20973.html Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz <[email protected]> --- scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in index f464014..e996a55 100644 --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in @@ -185,9 +185,9 @@ enter_fakeroot() { msg "$(gettext "Entering %s environment...")" "fakeroot" if [[ -n $newpkgver ]]; then - fakeroot -- $0 --forcever $newpkgver -F "${ARGLIST[@]}" || exit $? + fakeroot -u -- $0 --forcever $newpkgver -F "${ARGLIST[@]}" || exit $? else - fakeroot -- $0 -F "${ARGLIST[@]}" || exit $? + fakeroot -u -- $0 -F "${ARGLIST[@]}" || exit $? fi } -- 1.7.6
