From: Ryan Anderson Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 05:27:59 GMT Subject: Re: git-diff-files and fakeroot Message-ID: <20060117052758.GA22839@mythryan2.michonline.com> In-Reply-To: <7vzmlvk2bs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 06:36:39PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ryan Anderson 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