On Thu, 13 May 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote: > In order to build Debian packages you have to be root or running under a > fakeroot-style environment. It would be helpful if apt-get could > automatically > attempt to run dpkg-buildpackage through (for example) fakeroot. Not that > it's > too much trouble to prefix apt-get source with fakeroot, but this would make > building packages as a non-root user even easier than it already is..
This is entirely possible, set DPkg::Build-Options to "-b -uc -r fakeroot" in the apt config file or on the command line. Jason
