Package fakeroot: Information
Source package: fakeroot
Version: 1.29-alt3
Build time: May 25, 2024, 08:30 AM
Category: Development/Other
Report package bugLicense: GPLv3+
Summary: Run a command in an environment faking root privileges for file manipulation
Description:
fakeroot runs a command in an environment were it appears to have root privileges for file manipulation. This is useful for allowing users to createarchives (tar, ar, .rpm etc.) with files in them with root permissions/ownership. Without fakeroot one would have to have root privileges to create the constituent files of the archives with the correct permissions and ownership, and then pack them up, or one would have to construct the archives directly, without using the archiver.
Maintainer: Ivan Zakharyaschev
List of contributors:
Ivan Zakharyaschev
Dmitry V. Levin
Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
Alexander V. Nikolaev
Ivan Zakharyaschev
Dmitry V. Levin
Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
Alexander V. Nikolaev
Last changed
April 6, 2023 Ivan Zakharyaschev 1.29-alt3
- Fixed a compiler error of older GCCs (for p10) in the wrapper for syscall function. - Warn the maintainer if a function definition is missing (when it is not generated for special cases like calling a variadic function like syscall). - Added Large-File support in all internal actions (for emulating mknod with a normal file; storing internal database; and for querying the fake owner). - Shut up a few compiler warnings.
April 5, 2023 Ivan Zakharyaschev 1.29-alt2
- Fixed the wrapper for syscall function so that it works even with the e2k calling convention, which is special for variadic functions. (ALT#45757)
Jan. 21, 2023 Dmitry V. Levin 1.29-alt1
- 1.28 -> 1.29. - Wrap syscall function.