Re: initialize package database, etc.
To continue my story, I am having problem with fakeroot now.
Background info first: I have dpkg-dev (as .rpm), debhelper, dh-make
and fakeroot (all as .deb) installed on my redhat 7.0 box.
They were all built on RH7.0 with no problem and I can use them to build
.deb packages flawlessly as REAL root. However, with fakeroot,
the building process failed as follows:
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is dh-make
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.21
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
......
dpkg-buildpackage: build architecture is i386
fakeroot debian/rules clean
make: *** user_access: seteuid: Operation not permitted. Stop.
It seems to be related to 'make' only, because other commands
behaves fine with fakeroot.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Listed below are the version info for relevant tools:
$ rpm -q dpkg
dpkg-1.9.6-static_1
$ dpkg -l
......
ii debhelper 3.0.41 helper programs for debian/rules
ii dh-make 0.21 Debianizing Tool for debhelper
ii fakeroot 0.4.4-4.1 Gives a fake root environment.
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:12:54PM -0700, T.R.Y. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am experimenting dpkg and friends on redhat system
> (packed dpkg-1.9.6 as an rpm and installed).
> I would like to know how I can properly initialize package database
> (i.e., get all needed file in place under /var/lib/dpkg) so that
> this error can be avoided:
>
> [root@foo bar]# dpkg --admindir=/var/lib/dpkg -l
> dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory
>
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