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Package: fakeroot (1.9.5)

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 or TCP to operate.

Tags: Software Development: Packaging, Implemented in: C, sh, bash, ksh, tcsh and other shells, User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Shared Library, Scope: Utility, Application Suite: Debian

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alpha 105.3 kB424 kB [list of files]
amd64 112.7 kB452 kB [list of files]
arm 91.6 kB356 kB [list of files]
armel 88.8 kB364 kB [list of files]
hppa 105.1 kB384 kB [list of files]
i386 110.4 kB356 kB [list of files]
ia64 128.4 kB500 kB [list of files]
mips 93.4 kB372 kB [list of files]
mipsel 95.8 kB372 kB [list of files]
powerpc 128.6 kB516 kB [list of files]
s390 122.5 kB472 kB [list of files]
sparc 115.4 kB460 kB [list of files]