[pacman-dev] Fakeroot patches for makepkg

Andrew Fyfe andrew at neptune-one.net
Mon May 14 12:04:08 EDT 2007


Dan McGee wrote:
> On 5/14/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5/14/07, Andrew Fyfe <andrew at neptune-one.net> wrote:
>>> Rebased against the current git tree, any chance of getting them added?
>>> http://repo.or.cz/w/pacman.git?a=shortlog;h=fakeroot
>>> Andrew
>> Hey,
>>
>> I started cleaning out my old emails last night, and this is one of
>> them I've been meaning to do. Sorry for leaving you hanging. I will
>> try to get to it this week sometime.
>>
>> -Dan
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> I've merged about 75% of your patches into my working branch. I am
> holding off on the last few (most important ones?) for a bit until I
> look over them to make sure I understand what it is doing, although
> the work looks good. I also don't know if we want to merge this
> fake_install functionality into mainline yet, but we'll see.
> 
> Here it is: <http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=shortlog;h=working>.
> There is a fakeroot branch as well that follows from working with your
> remaining patches.
> 
> -Dan
> 
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Thanks Dan

"Reduced the number of commands run inside fakeroot to the bare 
minimum." is the most important one, "Removed fakeroot hacks." is just 
some final clean up, and the fake_install patch is optional.

Andrew




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