LFS - DESTDIR Style

[Bryan Kadzban]

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Sukucorp Sukucorp wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Bryan Kadzban
> <bryan at kadzban.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
>> But any kind of DESTDIR type setup would require it, if the
>> package's "make install" is run as a non-root user.
>
> fakeroot is not an absolute requirement for install-root style PM. I
> use the following wrappers to avoid using fakeroot.
>
> chgrp | chown )
> install )
> ldconfig )

Obviously no packages try to mknod during their installation then.  ;-)

Does this handle e.g. fcron, where several binaries need to be setgid
fcron and/or setuid fcron?  It looks like any files will end up being
setuid but owned by the non-root user that built the package here (or
owned by root, if root unpacks the package with something like tar's
- --no-same-owner flag), unless that's handled separately during the
package installation.

You are right: with enough workarounds, you don't need fakeroot.  But
if you install the package into DESTDIR as root (or as a package user),
you don't need it either.  ;-)

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