wok-current diff fakeroot/description.txt @ rev 24962
updated ndiswrapper packages (1.62 -> 1.63)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Sun Apr 24 07:20:09 2022 +0100 (2022-04-24) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/fakeroot/description.txt Sun Apr 24 07:20:09 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ 1.4 +Gives a fake root environment, to remove the need to become root for 1.5 +a package build. 1.6 + 1.7 +Fakeroot runs a command in an environment where it appears to have 1.8 +root privileges for file manipulation. 1.9 +This is useful for allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, 1.10 +.deb etc.) with files in them with root permissions or ownership. 1.11 +Without fakeroot one would have to have root privileges to create the 1.12 +constituent files of the archives with the correct permissions and 1.13 +ownership, and then pack them up, or one would have to construct the 1.14 +archives directly, without using the archiver.