Re: debuild and fakeroot

[James Morrison]

--- Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> wrote:
> Well, in fact fakeroot has never been portable before and the Hurd
> implementation exists solely for the purpose of making it easier to deal
> with expectations of existing Debian stuff (that's why it uses $* instead
> of being correct and using "$@", I was matching what the original fakeroot
> did).  I don't mind removing the "exec".
> 
> 

 Shouldn't fakeroot be fixed for Debian GNU/Linux though?  Since it uses $*
instead of $@ something like
'fakeroot mpg123 "/home/Media/mp3/ABBA - Dancing Queen.mp3"'
doesn't work.  However, to get 'fakeroot :' to work the fakeroot for GNU/Hurd
would still have to remove the call to exec, and the GNU/Linux fakeroot would
have
to change 'sh -c $*' to be just "$@".


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James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU

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