Hartmut, what is so hard for you to understand about this?
> PyInstaller is a tool for *building*, not for *installing* so I do not
see any *need* for running it with more rights than a normal user's one.
1 . "dpkg-buildpackage -r fakeroot" uses fakeroot in the process of
building a deb file.
PyInstaller is used in that process to *build*, other parts of the process
require fakeroot.
2. fakeroot does not provide more rights than the normal user
(from the man page)
fakeroot runs a command in an environment wherein it APPEARS to
have
root privileges for file manipulation. This is useful for
allowing
users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb etc.) with files in them
with
root permissions/ownership. Without fakeroot one would need to
have
root privileges to create the constituent files of the archives
with
the correct permissions and ownership, and then pack them up, or
one
would have to construct the archives directly, without using
the
archiver.
On Thursday, March 28, 2013 9:24:36 AM UTC+1, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
>
> Am 26.03.2013 22:57, schrieb Joachim Metz:
>
> > So: Why would one need to run PyInstaller as fakeroot?
>
> Because it's a tool that offers functionality I would like to use.
>
>
> Why do you *need* to run PyInstallar as fakeroot?
>
> PyInstaller is a tool for *building*, not for *installing* so I do not see
> any *need* for running it with more rights than a normal user's one.
>
>
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>
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>
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