Package: fakeroot Version: 1.13 Severity: wishlist Hi,
i am using fakeroot as a helper in software distribution. For example, I have a subdirectory tree containing /etc of a new system, while all files belong to me and have mode 600 on the real file system. When I modify the subtree, I do this under fakeroot -i -s, so that etc/shadow can be root:shadow 640 without me actually being root on the system. In this context, the save-file lives over weeks/months and contains important configuration data. I would now like to be able to rsync/copy these trees to different systems, which doesn't work since the save file only contains file system and inode numbers which are likely to be differnt on the other system. I must admit that I haven't really understood why fakeroot doesn't key the save-file by file name (I guess it must have something to do with hardlinks ouside the fakeroot scope, but I haven't understood). Would it be possible to put the file name into the file as well (cached from the respective syscalls or obtained from /proc) so that a subsequent fakeroot -r can choose whether to verify whether the file name and the inode number still match and/or allow the user to choose whether to give the inode number or the file name precedence? Such a change would not break backwards compatibility. Greetings Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
