[OpenAFS-devel] pinstall breaks fakeroot when compiling openafs for Nokia tablets

[Marcus Watts]

> Date:    Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:07:55 PDT
> To:      openafs-devel@openafs.org
> From:    Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] pinstall breaks fakeroot when compiling openafs fo
>      ***r Nokia tablets
> 
> Marcus Watts <mdw@umich.edu> writes:
> 
> > "pinstall" doesn't just clobber LD_PRELOAD and FAKEROOTKEY, it discards
> > *every* environment variable with majestic indifference whenever it does
> > execve to invoke /bin/cp and /bin/strip (or variations which depend on
> > the *target* OS being selected.)
> 
> I'm fairly sure that when fakeroot is working properly, it overrides
> execve to pass the environment variables it needs regardless.

That's a clever idea.  But in the source to fakeroot-1.9.5 it looks like
that's commented out -- never implemented or was removed?

Looks like the fakeroot folks were being very minimalist in any case.
Presumably they didn't want to wind up with usermode linux or
solaris zones.

					-Marcus