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Package: fakeroot (1.14.4-1)

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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