Re: Bug#796973: ITP: pseudo -- advanced tool for simulating superuser privileges
On 26/08/15 20:30, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Pseudo has a lot of similarities to fakeroot but is a new implementation that improves on the problems seen using fakeroot. Pseudo is now extensively used by Poky as a replacement to fakeroot but can also be used standalone in many other use cases. Are there any drawbacks when compared to use of fakeroot? If there are none, shouldn't it supersed fakeroot ? I don't yet know, I will test it once I have the package ready. What I know is that Yocto uses it quite successfully for purposes similar to ours. -- Cheers, Andrew
Re: Bug#796973: ITP: pseudo -- advanced tool for simulating superuser privileges
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015, at 08:35, Andrew Shadura wrote: * Package name: pseudo Version : 1.6.7. Upstream Author : Yocto Project, Wind River Systems Inc. * URL : https://www.yoctoproject.org/tools-resources/projects/pseudo * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: C Description : advanced tool for simulating superuser privileges The pseudo utility offers a way to run commands in a virtualized root environment, allowing ordinary users to run commands which give the illusion of creating device nodes, changing file ownership, and otherwise doing things necessary for creating distribution packages or filesystems. Pseudo has a lot of similarities to fakeroot but is a new implementation that improves on the problems seen using fakeroot. Pseudo is now extensively used by Poky as a replacement to fakeroot but can also be used standalone in many other use cases. Are there any drawbacks when compared to use of fakeroot? If there are none, shouldn't it supersed fakeroot ? -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org
Bug#796973: ITP: pseudo -- advanced tool for simulating superuser privileges
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Shadura andre...@debian.org * Package name: pseudo Version : 1.6.7. Upstream Author : Yocto Project, Wind River Systems Inc. * URL : https://www.yoctoproject.org/tools-resources/projects/pseudo * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: C Description : advanced tool for simulating superuser privileges The pseudo utility offers a way to run commands in a virtualized root environment, allowing ordinary users to run commands which give the illusion of creating device nodes, changing file ownership, and otherwise doing things necessary for creating distribution packages or filesystems. Pseudo has a lot of similarities to fakeroot but is a new implementation that improves on the problems seen using fakeroot. Pseudo is now extensively used by Poky as a replacement to fakeroot but can also be used standalone in many other use cases.
