Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | | Subject | Re: git-diff-files and fakeroot | | Date | Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:59:24 -0500 |
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On Jan 17, 2006, at 00:27, Ryan Anderson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 06:36:39PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> 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.
You should run "make" first, then after that completes run "fakeroot make deb-pkg". I think this is similar to what the Debian package "kernel-package" does, except it substitutes an alternate "debian/" directory. IIRC, it just runs "make install" as a normal user to a staging directory, then runs "$(ROOTCMD) dpkg-deb -b [...]" to build the package. IMHO it's somewhat of a cleaner solution, and I've used it for several years now with no issues. Cheers, Kyle Moffett
-- I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. -- Poul Anderson
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