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On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 19:22, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Thursday 21 August 2003 20:14, Rob Cakebread wrote: |
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> > Does anyone think its a waste to add all the sudo stuff and run as regular |
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> > user? Or just run the app as root? |
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> i think ideally it would work like this: |
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> sudo root to fetch (or maybe just portage ?) |
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> sudo root to pkg_setup |
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> run as portage to digest/unpack/compile/install |
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> sudo root to qmerge |
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> -mike |
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Debian has a package called fakeroot |
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(http://packages.debian.org/fakeroot): |
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This package is intended to enable something like: |
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dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot |
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i.e. to remove the need to become root for a package build. This is done |
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by setting LD_PRELOAD to libfakeroot.so, which provides wrappers around |
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getuid, chown, chmod, mknod, stat, ..., thereby creating a fake root |
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environment. |
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If you don't understand any of this, you do not need fakeroot! |
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I haven't used it myself, but perhaps this would be a starting point? |
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