News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Canonical creates a custom 40-processor ARM build machine. Parent comment

Re:Canonical creates a custom 40-processor ARM build machine by JoshTriplett on Sunday June 12, 2011 @11:40PM (#2648029)
For one thing each package needs a different build environment, so the overlay filesystem wouldn't necessarily help much. For another, can you say with confidence that the build process (which typically runs some steps as root) will not affect any system state outside of the filesystem?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Canonical creates a custom 40-processor ARM build machine by jrockway on Monday June 13, 2011 @01:04AM (#2648188)
Why run the build steps as root? Fakeroot seems to work for Debian.
[ Parent | on HN ]