[aur-general] avoid usage of fakeroot: always use of build() and package() (Was: application as a TU)

[Ray Rashif]

2009/11/22 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>

> Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
> > 2009/11/21 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>:
> >
> >> hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:24:58 -0300
> >>> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Andrea Scarpino wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Why do you use package() function when the package isn't a splitted
> >>>>> package?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> Hello :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Using both build() and package() is not necessary condition for use
> >>>> only with splitted packages, its avoid to use the fakeroot on building
> >>>> process that is not needed in 99% of packages.
> >>>>
> >>>> Good luck!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Sorry, but I consider the use of fakeroot a good thing, it helps
> >>> to reveal errors while packaging/creating the PKGBUILD at least. Don't
> >>> know why it should be avoided.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> fakeroot make a table of function pointers for many file manipulation
> >> calls, like open(), close(), chmod() and etc -> overhead, slowdowns
> >> (small of course)
> >> During the build process file perms are not necessary to be "tracked",
> >> or at least in 99% of packages. Only during the install process is only
> >> needed.
> >>
> >> If you have an example that breaks this, please let me know ;)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera )
> >> http://www.djgera.com.ar
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Nice feature! I didn't know that using package() avoids using of
> fakeroot.
> >
> > Back to my point. There used to be a problem with compilation of
> > amarok1 package from AUR only because of fakeroot and I guess that it
> > would also help with building of mplayer (configure crashes under
> > fakeroot environment and needs to be patched but maybe it was fixed
> > meanwile alongside with amarok1 problem). So in some specific cases I
> > can see the point of using separate package() even when the PKGBUILD
> > builds only one package.
> >
> > best,
> > Lukas
> >
> >
> ;)
>
> Most reported crashes on bugtracker are because nvidia libgl, that
> conflics with libfakeroot, both uses dlsym() (nvidia i don't know why
> does this, fakeroot do this to fill a table of pointer to functions),
> the result is a jump to NULL :P
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516024#75
>
>
>
> --
> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera )
> http://www.djgera.com.ar
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>
>
Hi Gerardo can you confirm that there are no (owner) permission issues when
building without fakeroot (i.e all owned by user)? I don't see chown
anywhere other than extract_sources().