Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:27:59 -0500 | | From | Ryan Anderson <> | | Subject | Re: git-diff-files and fakeroot |
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 06:36:39PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> writes: > > > I've been trying to track down a strange issue with building kernels > > (and scripts/setlocalversion) and finally realized the problem was the > > when run under fakeroot, git-diff-files thinks everything is changed > > (deleted, I believe) > > BTW, Ryan, I suspect this is where you try to append "-dirty" to > the version number. But I wonder why you are doing the build > under fakeroot to begin with? Wasn't the SOP "build as > yourself, install as root"?
That's exactly what started this search, because I was running "make deb-pkg". (Effectively.) dpkg-buildpackage wants to think it is running as root, either via sudo or via fakeroot. I had my build environment switched over entirely to fakeroot, as it just seems to be a better practice, but I've temporarily switched back to sudo.
However, your explanation has pointed out to me how I can solve this - run "fakeroot -u" instead of "fakeroot", and I think it will be fixed.
lkml cc:ed to hopefully stick this in an archive where someone else will find it.
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