From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Claus Klein Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:14:16 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] chown to root does not work In-Reply-To: <20070123231407.GM23354@aon.at> References: <200701191331.07579.thilo@riessner.de> <200701232320.34740.claus.klein@arcormail.de> <20070123231407.GM23354@aon.at> Message-ID: <200701240714.16310.claus.klein@arcormail.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Wednesday 24 January 2007 00:14, Bernhard Fischer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:20:34PM +0100, Claus Klein wrote: > >On Monday 22 January 2007 21:30, Bernhard Fischer wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:02:53PM +0100, Bernhard Fischer wrote: > >> >On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:35PM +0100, Thilo Riessner wrote: > >> >>Am Freitag, 19. Januar 2007 17:33 schrieben Sie: > >> >>> 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. > >> > >> I've updated fakeroot, both the old version and the new one work for me. > >> Please update, make dirclean && make and let me know if you still get > >> this error.. > > > >it works, but there are still the error messges? > > Please report this against your distro and/or against fakeroot if your > distro fails to fix this. > It is the buildroote host fakeroute which is running while build builroout target tarroot. claus at P3linux:~/src/buildroot> /tools/Linuxi386CDK/usr/bin/fakeroot -v fakeroot version 1.5.12 My Host (OpenSuse 10.2) has no fakeroot! claus at P3linux:~/src/buildroot> which fakeroot claus at P3linux:~/src/buildroot> > PS: Works for me > PPS: please provide a patch that fixes this for you if you think > fakeroot is in error. Ok, I will try to find the problem. But first I have to understand how fakeroot works. Bye, Claus