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lurker
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 Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 1:05 am Post subject: portage "fakeroot" (non-root building)? |
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where is the "fakeroot" (non-root building) capability added to Portage by J. Robert Ray? I would like to use it to try some cross-compiling something like this:
user@gentoo $ export ROOT=/cross
user@gentoo $ export PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp/cross-portage
user@gentoo $ fakeroot emerge system
but that causes configure to run under fakeroot which doesn't work. so maybe one of these:
user@gentoo $ export FEATURES="sandbox fakeroot"
user@gentoo $ emerge system
or
user@gentoo $ emerge --fakeroot system
but that's not it. this is portage 2.0.45-r4 which seems to be the latest. does anyone know how to use the new fakeroot capability? |
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pjp
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| Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 5:59 am Post subject: |
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Just finished emerging it and haven't tried anything. A couple of things from the man page: | Quote: | If you intend to build packages with fakeroot, please try building the fakeroot package first:
the "debian/rules build" stage has a few tests (testing mostly for bugs in old fakeroot ver-
sions). If those tests fail (for example because you have certain libc5 programs on your sys-
tem), other packages you build with fakeroot will quite likely fail too, but possibly in much
more subtle ways. |
| Quote: | Also, note that it's best not to do the building of the binaries themselves under fakeroot.
Especially configure and friends don't like it when the system suddenly behaves differently
from what they expect. (or, they randomly unset some environemnt variables, some of which fake-
root needs). |
To me, that sounds like fakeroot emerge packagename isn't desireable. Instead, I'd expect a portage option to use fakeroot. Something similar to (bold is my emphasis): | Quote: | fakeroot was specifically written to enable users to create Debian GNU/Linux packages
(in the deb(5) format) without giving them root privileges. This can be done by com-
mands like dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot or build -rfakeroot |
This is the first I've seen/read about fakeroot... am I misunderstanding something?
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| Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| kanuslupus wrote: | | Just finished emerging it and haven't tried anything. |
yes the fakeroot package itself is there
| Quote: | | To me, that sounds like fakeroot emerge packagename isn't desireable. Instead, I'd expect a portage option to use fakeroot. |
yes I agree.
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This is the first I've seen/read about fakeroot... am I misunderstanding something? |
The fakeroot/portage integration is teased on the front page in the recent news item from daniel robbins. |
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