BSD Ports

sysutils/fakeroot 1.5.10 NetBSD

Creates a fake root environment

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
gnu-gpl-v3
Categories
sysutils
Package size
35.4 KiB, 145.1 KiB installed

Description

Fakeroot creates a `faked root' environment.

A typical use case is creating tar (or somesuch) packages that should have proper file ownerships and modes without needing root access to the machine.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
NetBSDsysutils/fakeroot1.5.10
FreeBSDsecurity/fakeroot2.1.4
DragonFlysecurity/fakeroot1.23_1
MidnightBSDsecurity/fakeroot1.37.2

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install fakeroot

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/fakeroot && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.