[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#363030: root settings

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Pierre HABOUZIT said:
> severity 363030 normal
> thanks
> 
> On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 07:23:56AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > I am able to reproduce this problem.  Here are the root-related
> > settings in /etc/pbuilderrc:
> > 
> > > #for pbuilder debuild
> > > BUILDSOURCEROOTCMD="fakeroot"
> > > PBUILDERROOTCMD="sudo"
> 
>   this is not RC. I'm even not sure it is a bug. If you use sudo as a
> ROOTCMD, then, well, basically you're root. and if a program refuse to
> build when you're root because upstream feels it's too dangerous, it
> just fails. and I really don't see what's wrong with it, it's the
> intended behaviour.

Except that several of our architectures use sudo on the buildd's.  If a
program won't build with sudo, it will effectively FTBFS on those
architectures.  Not sure that this makes this bug RC, but the FTBFS will
be.
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