Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:39:57 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd |
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> It appears to not be standard with fedora for sure... but while it origiginally > was/is a Debian package it looks like there is source if you'd like to build it > on other systems. It was originally designed to tackle the exact problem you > are confronting. > > See: > http://freshmeat.net/projects/fakeroot/ > > About: > Fakeroot runs a command in an environment were it appears to have root > privileges for file manipulation, by setting LD_PRELOAD to a library with > alternative versions of getuid(), stat(), etc. This is useful for allowing > users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb .rpm etc.) with files in them with root > permissions/ownership. Without fakeroot one would have 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.
Ugh that sounds even more than a hack. At least for one-user archives, I guess nobody at Debian knows that tar has a --user and --group option.
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