Hi there,
given that apparently quite some packages are affected by the inability to use
chmod/chown/chgrp when building as nobody, maybe we should take a step back and
see if we can come up with a better solution than "hack the makefile, the move
the commands to a PostInstScript". The problem
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:33:39 0200, Max Horn wrote:
> Here is one idea: Maybe we could insert our own custom chmod/chown
scripts into the PATH used for building packages, with suid flag set,
so that they can invoke the original chmod/chown with the appropriate
rights. Of course that punch
Op 12 sep 2010, om 09:33 heeft Max Horn het volgende geschreven:
> Here is one idea: Maybe we could insert our own custom chmod/chown scripts
> into the PATH used for building packages, with suid flag set, so that they
> can invoke the original chmod/chown with the appropriate rights. Of course
Am 12.09.2010 um 12:58 schrieb Sjors Gielen:
>
> Op 12 sep 2010, om 09:33 heeft Max Horn het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Here is one idea: Maybe we could insert our own custom chmod/chown scripts
>> into the PATH used for building packages, with suid flag set, so that they
>> can invoke the ori
On Sep 12, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Max Horn wrote:
> Good question... Anybody know?
>
> They used to have a tool called "fakeroot" for allowing non-root users to
> build packages (we used to contemplate porting that to Mac OS X, but that's
> hard, as the tool is system specific). But I don't know wh
