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Re: git-diff-files and fakeroot

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 17, 2006, 02:36 UTC
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<7vzmlvk2bs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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<43CC5231.3090005@michonline.com>
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"?

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