From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to test package install?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 03:12:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2544545.h0UJQXTtLj@porto> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180215232137.zixbaadh6plxnwxd@matica.foolinux.mooo.com>
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Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2018, 00:21:37 CET schrieb Ian Zimmerman:
> On 2018-02-15 23:39, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > > I'm trying to test my package by running "ebuild /path/to/pkg.ebuild
> > > install". Naturally (for me) I do this as an unprivileged user, not
> > > as root. It fails because at least some steps such as dobin need to
> > > give away ownership of the files being installed. I tried to run
> > > the whole thing including compilation under fakeroot but that
> > > doesn't help.
> >
> > That should usually "just work".
> >
> > Did you use fakeroot directly (bad), or did you add "fakeroot" to
> > FEATURES in make.conf (good)?
>
> The former. I didn't know about the feature. Is it safe to enable it
> for "production" runs as well?
Yes, it should be safe. At least I have it on all the time and never noticed
any problems.
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Dr. Andreas K. Hüttel
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http://www.akhuettel.de/
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-15 2:37 [gentoo-user] How to test package install? Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-15 3:37 ` John Covici
2018-02-15 7:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2018-02-15 8:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-15 22:39 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2018-02-15 23:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-17 2:12 ` Andreas K. Huettel [this message]
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