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Unfortunately checkinstall has an inconvenient bug on (at least) Debian Wheezy which makes sudo required for package building under some circumstances.
by regularfry 13y ago
Unfortunately checkinstall has an inconvenient bug on (at least) Debian Wheezy which makes sudo required for package building under some circumstances.
- infinity0 13y agoHow so? What goes wrong with `make && sudo checkinstall make install`?
- regularfry 13y agoFilesystem translation has a bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717778 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717778 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkinstall/+bug/78455 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkinstall/+bug/... This manifests itself by any "mkdir -p" which requires root in the `make install` phase failing.