Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:27:59 -0500
From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-diff-files and fakeroot
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 06:36:39PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> writes:
> 
> > I've been trying to track down a strange issue with building kernels
> > (and scripts/setlocalversion) and finally realized the problem was the
> > when run under fakeroot, git-diff-files thinks everything is changed
> > (deleted, I believe)
> 
> BTW, Ryan, I suspect this is where you try to append "-dirty" to
> the version number.  But I wonder why you are doing the build
> under fakeroot to begin with?  Wasn't the SOP "build as
> yourself, install as root"?

That's exactly what started this search, because I was running
"make deb-pkg". (Effectively.)  dpkg-buildpackage wants to think it is
running as root, either via sudo or via fakeroot.  I had my build
environment switched over entirely to fakeroot, as it just seems to be a
better practice, but I've temporarily switched back to sudo.

However, your explanation has pointed out to me how I can solve this -
run "fakeroot -u" instead of "fakeroot", and I think it will be fixed.

lkml cc:ed to hopefully stick this in an archive where someone else will
find it.


-- 

Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere
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