Re: need anexample for debian packaging

[Reema Shah]

In building debian packages,why do you require root privileges and so we
have to use fakeroot..?

Re: need anexample for debian packaging

[Kartik Mistry]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Reema Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 In building debian packages,why do you require root privileges and so we
 have to use fakeroot..?

fakeroot is not necessary now with new dpkg.

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Re: need anexample for debian packaging

[Bernhard R. Link]

* Kartik Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080721 09:25]:
 On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Reema Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  In building debian packages,why do you require root privileges and so we
  have to use fakeroot..?
 
 fakeroot is not necessary now with new dpkg.

Reading through the changelogs, I only find in a change Oct 2007 that
dpkg-buildpackage uses fakeroot without being told so.

I doubt it is possible to build proper packages without root/fakeroot
or whatever else causing programs to think they run as root and
preserving user and permissions of files not representable as mere
user.

Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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Re: need anexample for debian packaging

[Ben Finney]

Reema Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 In building debian packages,why do you require root privileges and
 so we have to use fakeroot..?

The manpage for 'fakeroot(1)' gives the answer:

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.

Also note that this is explicitly used so that building a Debian
binary package *does not* require root privileges.

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need anexample for debian packaging

[Reema Shah]

Can u explain debian packaging with a good example please..

Re: need anexample for debian packaging

[Kartik Mistry]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Reema Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Can u explain debian packaging with a good example please..

Hi,

You can start with 'hello' and 'hello-debhelper' packages to start.

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