wok annotate fakeroot/description.txt @ rev 25066
updated alsa-lib, alsa-lib-dev and alsa-utils (1.2.2 -> 1.2.7)
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Fri Jun 10 13:35:13 2022 +0100 (2022-06-10) |
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Hans-G?nter@24537 | 1 Gives a fake root environment, to remove the need to become root for |
Hans-G?nter@24537 | 2 a package build. |
Hans-G?nter@24537 | 3 |
Hans-G?nter@24537 | 4 Fakeroot runs a command in an environment where it appears to have |
Hans-G?nter@24537 | 5 root privileges for file manipulation. |
Hans-G?nter@24537 | 6 This is useful for allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, |
Hans-G?nter@24537 | 7 .deb etc.) with files in them with root permissions or ownership. |
Hans-G?nter@24537 | 8 Without fakeroot one would have to have root privileges to create the |
Hans-G?nter@24537 | 9 constituent files of the archives with the correct permissions and |
Hans-G?nter@24537 | 10 ownership, and then pack them up, or one would have to construct the |
Hans-G?nter@24537 | 11 archives directly, without using the archiver. |