On Monday 30 June 2003 05:06 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.06.30.1548 +0200]: > > When you do "fakeroot make-kpkg ..." make-kpkg itself runs under > > fakeroot, so a root environment is provided whenever necessary, > > instead of "as expected" by make-kpkg's author. > > I still don't understand why that would solve the problem.
I don't think that I have really understood fakeroot myself.. After running some experiments myself because of this thread, I think a light is beginning to come on... > piper:/usr/src> ls -ld . > drwxrwsr-x 2 root src 48 2002-02-08 16:42 . > piper:/usr/src> groups | grep src || echo not a member of group src. > not a member of group src. > piper:/usr/src> fakeroot touch foo > touch: cannot touch `foo': Permission denied Correct... I believe that to have write access to the files in /usr/src, you need to be in group "src"... it seems that fakeroot does not give you any "real" file permissions... it seems that you cannot access a file under fakeroot in any way that you couldn't as a real user.. As a matter if fact, after looking at the examples given in the man page, if you write a file under fakeroot, as long as you're operating under fakeroot, it all looks like it's root's file.. but after you exit fakeroot, all of a sudden, it's really "your" file, after all.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fakeroot [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# whoami root [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# touch tmp/rootfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ll tmp/rootfile (Note: I don't even have ll aliased for root) -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 1 14:59 tmp/rootfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# exit exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll tmp/rootfile -rw-r--r-- 1 dlb dlb 0 Jul 1 14:59 tmp/rootfile So, in reality, fakeroot is only an "illusion".. and it's only use, AFAICT, is to write files to the debs that show root ownership. Also, after reading the manpage for fakeroot, the "correct" way to run make-kpkg may be with the --rootcmd option. In a previous post in this thread, I said that I got a permission error on rewriting the debian/ directory if I ran with the --rootcmd option but not with "fakeroot make-kpkg...", but now... I don't understand why this would make a difference..... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
