On Dec 5 2006 14:58, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: > > ...It also let's you mknod and friends, and let's you set permissions to files > to more than just ONE user. The whole point of the commands is to let you > make > distribution files without root access. Of course you can fake all of this > with a special archiver command.... I'm just throwing out options.
Ah. Thanks for explaining! Looks like it eats big amounts of memory when there are a lot of files in the faekroot. > > $ fakeroot > # mkdir root > # mkdir root/dev/ > # mknod root/dev/null c 1 3 > # mknod root/dev/sda1 b 8 1 > # chown root.disk root/dev/sda1 > # cd root > # tar cvf ../root.tar ./ > # exit > $ tar tvf root.tar > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-12-05 14:54 ./ > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-12-05 14:54 ./dev/ > crw-r--r-- root/root 1,3 2006-12-05 14:54 ./dev/null > brw-r--r-- root/disk 8,1 2006-12-05 14:54 ./dev/sda1 > > -- > Jeffrey Hundstad > > > -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/