On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:05 PM, John Hasler <jhas...@debian.org> wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> 4% $Get_Root make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image >> (Get_Root is whatever you need to become root -- fakeroot or >> sudo are examples that come to mind). > > >From the fakeroot man page: > > DESCRIPTION > > fakeroot runs a command in an environment wherein it appears to > have root privileges for file manipulation. This is useful for > allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb etc.) with files > in them with root permissions/ownership. Without fakeroot one > would need to have root privileges to create the constituent > files of the archives with the correct permissions and ownership, > and then pack them up, or one would have to construct the > archives directly, without using the archiver.
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