The hello-1.3 debian.rules does the 'make install' as root, presumably
in order to have correct uid's and permissions on the resulting
tree. While that's certainly a result to be desired, it is
inconvenient when building packages over NFS or in shared environments
where root access is not made trivially available.
Has anyone looked into a way of having dpkg simply perform the
translation while building the archive? It appears that cpio --owner
could do most of the work, or if not, some translation could be done
on the output of cpio within dpkg. Before I look into this further, is
there anything wrong with the idea?
_Mark_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cygnus Support, Eastern USA
(quote from man cpio...)
-R [user][:.][group], --owner [user][:.][group]
In copy-out and copy-pass modes, set the ownership
of all files created to the specified user and/or
group. Either the user or the group, or both, must
be present. If the group is omitted but the ":" or
"." separator is given, use the given user's login
group. Only the super-user can change files' own-
ership.
