Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:11:45AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Real or fake makes no difference. Anything that test id or file
permissions will (hopefully) behave the same with fakeroot.
Wrong; otherwise there wouldn't be packages who fail to
[Goswin von Brederlow]
Do they fail when you use sudo instead of fakeroot or when you run the
complete build process as root?
The usual reason a package fails with sudo is that it assumes the
$(PWD) macro will be available, pointing to the current working
directory. sudo does not preserve
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[Goswin von Brederlow]
Do they fail when you use sudo instead of fakeroot or when you run the
complete build process as root?
The usual reason a package fails with sudo is that it assumes the
$(PWD) macro will be available, pointing to the current
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:11:45AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Real or fake makes no difference. Anything that test id or file
permissions will (hopefully) behave the same with fakeroot.
Wrong; otherwise there wouldn't be packages who fail to build when root
is, in fact, root, as happens
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:42:50AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:53:32PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can also note why bazaar wont build as root: its test suite
includes a test for the ability to handle read only
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:53:32PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can also note why bazaar wont build as root: its test suite
includes a test for the ability to handle read only directories
correctly. As
[Goswin von Brederlow]
Real or fake makes no difference. Anything that test id or file
permissions will (hopefully) behave the same with fakeroot.
Ahh, the difference between theory and practice. fakeroot does not
emulate the access(2) system call, which is one obvious thing to use
when
Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:53:32PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can also note why bazaar wont build as root: its test suite
includes a test for the ability to handle read only directories
correctly. As root, anything
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:53:32PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can also note why bazaar wont build as root: its test suite
includes a test for the ability to handle read only directories
correctly. As root, anything is writable, so this
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