On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > > Of course, Rev Simon *meant* to say 'fakeroot debian/rules binary', and > > build-dependencies. :-) > > I see fakeroot mentioned a lot in Debian documentation. Tell me, why > would I use it instead of sudo? Is there any advantage?
Since it doesn't *actually* give root privs, fakeroot is safer when you need to do root-like things (chown files, setuid, and such) but don't want to hand your system to the first badly written makefile or shell script that comes along. It also lets users build Debian packages without needing to hassle the sysadmin for sudo access (like we'd give it to them anyway...) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
