Timeline for How fakeroot is not a security breach in Linux?
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| Jul 16, 2018 at 12:42 | history | edited | FeRD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
The existing answers aren't "pretty good", they're just plain "good".
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| Jul 12, 2018 at 13:25 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt |
Yeah I was confused at first too, since the fakeroot manpage on Debian’s site leads to fakeroot-ng’s version by default. Check out the last paragraph of the fakeroot-ng for an amusing twist ;-).
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| Jul 12, 2018 at 13:17 | history | edited | FeRD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Expand on the relationship between fakeroot and its imitators/competitors, in the footnote
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| Jul 12, 2018 at 13:12 | comment | added | FeRD |
@StephenKitt Aha! Thanks. I was wondering about that. Initially I was confused because I went searching for the fakeroot manpage, and Google dumped me at fakeroot-ng's (masquerading as fakeroot(1)), and I guess I overpresumed. But I see now that fakeroot-ng hasn't been updated since 2014, whereas fakeroot is still active. There's apparently also pseudo which made a go of it a couple of years ago, but has now stalled. I'll tweak my answer accordingly.
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| Jul 12, 2018 at 13:04 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt |
Regarding your first note, fakeroot-ng claims to supersede fakeroot, but in practice it hasn’t replaced it, and AFAIK fakeroot is still the tool used in Debian by default (when necessary).
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| Jul 12, 2018 at 8:42 | history | answered | FeRD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |