From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernhard Fischer Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:33:13 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] chown to root does not work In-Reply-To: <200701191612.12016.thilo@riessner.de> References: <200701191331.07579.thilo@riessner.de> <20070119133516.GI14371@priv.blacknet.de> <200701191612.12016.thilo@riessner.de> Message-ID: <20070119163313.GA17320@aon.at> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Thilo Riessner wrote: >Am Freitag, 19. Januar 2007 14:35 schrieb Goetz Bock: >> 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? Who does call chown in there? Which package? Please show me the logs around the alleged call to chown that is failing. >> >> Use fakeroot. Than the cpio/tar/... root images are owned by root. >I don't know fakeroot. What is it? A programme, an option of buildroot? How do >I have to use it? >Thanks for your help so far.