Patches for DCC non-root builds (was: Regarding fakeroot)

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
Mon Dec 22 11:19:19 UTC 2003


On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 12:15:43AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/DCC/DCC.spec
> http://www.dcc-servers.net/dcc/
> While investigating how Axel managed to package the incredibly f---ked 
> up dcc sources I discovered fakeroot for the first time.
> [...]
> What are your folks opinions about fakeroot?  Is it suitable for 
> fedora.us or fedora.redhat.com Extras, or is this only a poor excuse for 
> avoiding fixing broken Makefiles?

It's a poor excuse, but I need to get rid of spam.

If anyone wants to invest time into DCC packaging, I'd welcome
submitted patches for fixing the root requirements. Thanks.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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