On 2010-07-26 14:00 +0200, Curt Howland wrote: > On Monday 26 July 2010, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> was heard to > say: >> You need to install the fakeroot package to build Debian packages >> as an ordinary user. In Squeeze, dpkg-dev recommends fakeroot for >> that reason. > > Well, that solves that question. I thought the fakeroot package was > for "that extra bit of security", because I had it confused > with "chroot" and that whole "jail" thing. > > Got it! I'll try again on my main system (the Lenny one) again today > with all the advice given. I think it will work this time! And this > may be the first time I didn't get advice from Ron Johnson. :^)
There's another advice I need to give: while dpkg-dev will automatically use fakeroot when necessary, make-kpkg currently does not unless you set ROOT_CMD=fakeroot in the environment. You can put this setting into ~/.kernel-pkg.conf (I have it there for ages, and forgot about it). See kernel-pkg.conf(5) for other settings you may want to put into ~/.kernel-pkg.conf. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mxtel1xm....@turtle.gmx.de
