[CMake] CPack for making .deb files?

Philip D. Lowman philip at yhbt.com
Sun Jul 29 15:07:22 EDT 2007


Christian Convey wrote:
> Thanks Philip.
>
> I noticed that Medhi's DpkgDeb doesn't invoke 'fakeroot', which I
> thought was necessary for producing good .deb files.  Do you know how
> he gets away without using fakeroot?
Christian,

This website seems to indicate that one can define global build options 
that affect all users in the /etc/apt/apt.conf configuration file.  I 
haven't tried this myself, but this may be why his scripts don't invoke 
fakeroot.  Or he may just be building his packages as root :)

http://www.ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/giles/repository/repository-3.html

-- 
Philip



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