slackbuilds_ponce/system/fakeroot
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fakeroot.info system/fakeroot: Initial import 2010-05-11 15:18:36 +02:00
fakeroot.SlackBuild system/fakeroot: Initial import 2010-05-11 15:18:36 +02:00
README system/fakeroot: Initial import 2010-05-11 15:18:36 +02:00
slack-desc system/fakeroot: Initial import 2010-05-11 15:18:36 +02:00

Fakeroot makes it possible to run commands in an environment faking
root privileges. This is done by setting LD_PRELOAD to libfakeroot.so,
which provides wrappers around getuid, chown, chmod, mknod, stat, and
so on, thereby creating a fake root environment.