Hi,
> > 2. running pbuilder under user privilege will require fakeroot
> > which does not always work.
>
> In which cases does it work ? In which it doesn't ?
>
> It would be really helpful if one could use pbuilder without being root
> on the machine. For example, I have a user account to a PPC Debian box,
> but I can't run pbuilder on it because I'm not root. User-Mode-Linux is
> not a solution here, because it doesn't work on PowerPC. What's the
> solution in that case ?
fakeroot sometimes did not work on some architecture.
There were several packages which didn't work.
Some packages used to do 'mount -o loop' in their build script
that required real root privilege.
(old boot-floppies used to do this)
I would guess it's a rarer case now.
regards,
junichi
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