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| author | Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-05-27 22:21:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-05-27 22:21:34 +0000 |
| commit | 99606f0b7a7996b759ed34658c619f1f473f1c4e (patch) | |
| tree | 896d68c550d3737320eecb1a19d6fcf46bda9576 /security/fakeroot/pkg-descr | |
| parent | 2fe28174438d5eff68f6d1aa4be6f5ef81556944 (diff) | |
| download | ports-99606f0b7a7996b759ed34658c619f1f473f1c4e.tar.gz ports-99606f0b7a7996b759ed34658c619f1f473f1c4e.zip | |
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diff --git a/security/fakeroot/pkg-descr b/security/fakeroot/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a1112fcc229b --- /dev/null +++ b/security/fakeroot/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Fakeroot runs a command in an environment were it appears to have +root privileges for file manipulation, by setting LD_PRELOAD to a +library with alternative versions of getuid(), stat(), etc. This +is useful for allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb .rpm +etc.) with files in them with root permissions/ownership. Without +fakeroot one would have to have root privileges to create the +constituent files of the archives with the correct permissions and +ownership, and then pack them up, or one would have to construct +the archives directly, without using the archiver. + +WWW: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fakeroot |