From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Goetz Bock <bock@blacknet.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:35:16 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] chown to root does not work
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On Fri, Jan 19 '07 at 13:31, Thilo Riessner wrote:
> In the docs is mentioned, that one doesn't need to be root to build a root 
> filesystem. But when building the filesystem as a normal user, chown is not 
> able to change owner to root in the target filesystem. Is there a solution of 
> the problem, that I don't see?

Use fakeroot. Than the cpio/tar/... root images are owned by root.
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