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Description: Gives a fake root environment
This package is intended to enable something like:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
i.e. to remove the need to become root for a package build.
This is done by setting LD_PRELOAD to libfakeroot.so,
which provides wrappers around getuid, chown, chmod, mknod,
stat, and so on, thereby creating a fake root environment.
.
fakeroot requires SYSV IPC to operate.
Description: tool for simulating superuser privileges
fakeroot provides a fake "root environment" by means of LD_PRELOAD and
SysV IPC (or TCP) trickery. It puts wrappers around getuid(), chown(),
stat(), and other file-manipulation functions, so that unprivileged
users can (for instance) populate .deb archives with root-owned files;
various build tools use fakeroot for this by default.
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-Gives a fake root environment
+tool for simulating superuser privileges
- This package is intended to enable something like:
+ fakeroot provides a fake "root environment" by means of LD_PRELOAD and
- dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
+ SysV IPC (or TCP) trickery. It puts wrappers around getuid(), chown(),
- i.e. to remove the need to become root for a package build.
+ stat(), and other file-manipulation functions, so that unprivileged
- This is done by setting LD_PRELOAD to libfakeroot.so,
+ users can (for instance) populate .deb archives with root-owned files;
- which provides wrappers around getuid, chown, chmod, mknod,
+ various build tools use fakeroot for this by default.
- stat, and so on, thereby creating a fake root environment.
- .
- fakeroot requires SYSV IPC to operate.