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Fakeroot runs a command in an environment were it appears to have
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root privileges for file manipulation, by setting LD_PRELOAD to a
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library with alternative versions of getuid(), stat(), etc. This
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is useful for allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb .rpm
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etc.) with files in them with root permissions/ownership. Without
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fakeroot one would have to have root privileges to create the
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constituent files of the archives with the correct permissions and
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ownership, and then pack them up, or one would have to construct
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the archives directly, without using the archiver.
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WWW: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fakeroot
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