Fakeroot does not allow chown or mknod commands to achieve their
intended result. The host system's kernel still pays attention to
permissions. Transcript follows:
/scratchbox/login fakeroot mknod /tmp/blah c 1 2
/scratchbox/login ls -al /tmp/blah
-rw-r--r-- 1 yourname yourgroup 0 Jun 20 16:43 /tmp/blah
mknod running underneath fakeroot just creates a normal file.
On 6/20/06, Veli Mankinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Fakeroot:
/scratchbox/login fakeroot apt-get install packages-for-target
- Veli
On 20/06, Matt Hoosier wrote:
> So, I'll say at the beginning: I understand why developing as root in
> SB is A Bad Thing :)
>
> That said, I would like to be able to do so in very specific
> circumstances, like when building up a fresh target (to become the
> image for a target device) by downloading/installing packages with
> APT.
>
> Since package post-installation scripts sometimes need to make device
> nodes, or tweak binaries to be set-uid root, this seems to be a
> legitimate function.
>
> Is there a way that I can override the safety checks and do some work
> as root? E.g.,
>
> # /scratchbox/login apt-get install packages-for-target
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