Quoting Glenn Washburn (2022-01-17 08:42:24) > I'll restate my use case briefly here. The use case is installing packages as > an unprivileged user to a user writable location (I don't have privileges on > this machine and can't chroot). This can be done by invoking the dpkg binary > with the "--force-script-chrootless" option and works, but the post install > fails.
And just as I told you in that other bug, you can achieve that same thing without being root by using either fakechroot or by unsharing the user namespace. But you definitely have privileges for the former. We don't need to put support allowing maintainer scripts to be run as another user as the root user if there are mechanisms that can fake the root user. For good reasons package maintainers are cautious when it's about increasing the complexity of their maintainer scripts and it should only be done when it's absolutely necessary. The final decision of course lies with the texinfo maintainers and not me. I'm just explaining for you (again) why this is not needed. Just have a look at the mmdebstrap code and how it fakes being root to create chroot tarballs without any root privileges. Take that code and use it for your own project and you will not have to file another of these bugs as all packages will just magically work without any changes. If you need help understanding how mmdebstrap does what it does I (again) offer you my help. Thanks! cheers, josch
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