Re: Bug#2091: creating packages requires root privileges

1996-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Marek Michalkiewicz writes ("Bug#2091: creating packages requires root privileges"): > To create a binary *.deb package, root privileges are required. This > is because you must create a complete directory structure with proper > ownerships and permissions first, and then use

Bug#2091: creating packages requires root privileges

1996-01-04 Thread Marek Michalkiewicz
> If you're creating a Debian package you need to be root on the system > you're going to install it on to test it. Even if you're using some > shared environment in which you don't have root on the main > development machine, is it really that problematic to make the > `binary' target on the test

Bug#2091: creating packages requires root privileges

1996-01-04 Thread Richard Kettlewell
>Package: dpkg > >To create a binary *.deb package, root privileges are required. This >is because you must create a complete directory structure with proper >ownerships and permissions first, and then use dpkg-deb to create >a package from it. > >But this should't really be necessary. A tar file

Bug#2091: creating packages requires root privileges

1996-01-04 Thread Marek Michalkiewicz
Package: dpkg To create a binary *.deb package, root privileges are required. This is because you must create a complete directory structure with proper ownerships and permissions first, and then use dpkg-deb to create a package from it. But this should't really be necessary. A tar file is a ta