Re: git-diff-files and fakeroot

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

On Jan 17, 2006, at 00:27, Ryan Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 06:36:39PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> BTW, Ryan, I suspect this is where you try to append "-dirty" to  
>> the version number.  But I wonder why you are doing the build  
>> under fakeroot to begin with?  Wasn't the SOP "build as
>> yourself, install as root"?
>
> That's exactly what started this search, because I was running  
> "make deb-pkg". (Effectively.)  dpkg-buildpackage wants to think it  
> is running as root, either via sudo or via fakeroot.  I had my  
> build environment switched over entirely to fakeroot, as it just  
> seems to be a better practice, but I've temporarily switched back  
> to sudo.
>
> However, your explanation has pointed out to me how I can solve  
> this - run "fakeroot -u" instead of "fakeroot", and I think it will  
> be fixed.

You should run "make" first, then after that completes run "fakeroot  
make deb-pkg".  I think this is similar to what the Debian package  
"kernel-package" does, except it substitutes an alternate "debian/"  
directory.  IIRC, it just runs "make install" as a normal user to a  
staging directory, then runs "$(ROOTCMD) dpkg-deb -b [...]" to build  
the package.  IMHO it's somewhat of a cleaner solution, and I've used  
it for several years now with no issues.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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