From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SE89A-0001vq-Ek for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:55:52 +0200 Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 31 Mar 2012 16:46:45 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,352,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="124075967" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.123.233]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 31 Mar 2012 16:46:44 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: "Robert P. J. Day" Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:46:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1607664.qKyoFqIBt3@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.8.0 (Linux/3.0.0-17-generic-pae; KDE/4.8.1; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: is "fakeroot" still used as a variable "flag"? X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:55:52 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Saturday 31 March 2012 19:12:12 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > the bitbake manual lists "fakeroot" as a possible variable flag, > along with things like "nostamp", "noexec" and so on. but i don't see > fakeroot being used as a flag anywhere in the source tree. has that > changed? No, fakeroot is still used - it is a flag for functions indicating fakeroot (these days pseudo) should be enabled when the function is executed. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre