On Mon 09 Sep 02 00:24, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Humm, "fakeroot"? Odd indeed.  Not saying its wrong, but...  Whats
> this fakeroot do?

I haven't gone into details, but I think it mainly fakes file permissions. 
The main use is that you don't have to have _real_ root to do stuff which 
doesn't really necessitate it. Debian has such a thing as auto-builds, and 
for various reasons it makes sense not to have to have root to construct 
package files.

> For *most* systems, amanda should be built by the user thats going
> to run it from that users crontab.  But amanda does its own su-
> when the time comes, and in order for all the perms to be set
> right, root must install, same as your's.

The package scripts sort out the file permissions before package construction 
(make install isn't used directly).

..Brian
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