On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:00:36 PM UTC-7, Joachim Metz wrote: > > Pyinstaller now seems to have a restriction that it cannot run under root. > "You are running PyInstaller as user root." > > 1. Can you elaborate what reason for this restriction is? And why this > only done for "Unix" not for OSX or Windows? > > 2. This check is also triggered when running under fakeroot > e.g. from dpkg-buildpackage -r fakeroot > > Can you add a flag to override this behavior or fix the detection for root > under fakeroot?
I'll tell you one very good reason for running Pyinstaller as fakeroot, or in my case under Puppy Linux as "Spot", because in some linux distros running as su or root is the ONLY OPTION. And, before you begin to disparage my chosen OS, Puppy is highly respected among ubergeeks and is slowly being adopted by the lowly "super-users" like me as well. As it stands now, I have to try to uninstall Pyinstaller and that leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Promising application but no good to me with this restriction. What a shame. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
