On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 05:44:01PM +0900, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: > Oscar Levi wrote: > > > > If I understand this correctly, our petitioner was running the install > > target for his library and failed with ldconfig. Now, since this step > > is optional when creating a DEB, fakeroot suffices to prevent make > > from returning an error status for the impossible command (given that > > he was not root.) However, since fakeroot won't really promote a file > > from joe-user to root, he still needs to run something like sudo to > > build the deb. If this is so, is there any compelling reason to use > > fakeroot in this circumstance? > > > > The deb is already built. And the owner of the files is root. Only using > fakeroot and /sbin/ldconfig -n. >
I'd let this drop, but I think I'm gonna learn somthing. How is it that you created files owned by root without ever changing your uid to root? fakeroot chown root.root FILENAME doesn't do it, right?
