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Source: fakeroot-ng
Section: utils
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Shachar Shemesh <shachar@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), autotools-dev, gcc (>= 4:4.7), g++ (>= 4:4.7)
Homepage: http://fakeroot-ng.lingnu.com
Standards-Version: 3.9.5.0
Package: fakeroot-ng
Architecture: i386 powerpc amd64
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Description: Gives a fake root environment
This is a clean reimplementation of the fakeroot command. Just like it,
anything run within the fake root command will assume it is running as root.
Unlike it, fakeroot-ng is not based on LD_PRELOAD but on ptrace.
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The practical upshot of this is that the technology supports intercepting the
"open" system call. In particular, this allows simulating the "chroot" command
reliably.
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Another important difference is that fakeroot-ng can fool applications that do
not perform system calls through glibc, such as statically linked executables
and programs written in some non-C languages (like the latest Sun JDK).
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