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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:01:58 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: The UID of cygwin packages for installation
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:46:41AM -0700, James Michael DuPont wrote:
>Please excuse my ignorance on this issue,
>I am a very happy user of cygwin, and would like to port more packages
>to cygwin. 
>
>I have tried to find this information in the documents
>http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/
>There is much information about the file permissions an ntsec, but no
>guidelines for package authors and installations. 
>I guess I could try and use the netsec package, but what If I want to
>build packages under win95/98?  
>
>This is also an issue with cross compilation, how can I change the
>package to be root for installation on another (GNU/Linux)machine?
>
>I am using cygwin as an Adminstrator of my own win2k machine,
>and have installed it myself. I am able to install packages and modifiy
>the files that would normally under GNU/linux would be not accessable.
>
>All my files are created under "Administrator(500)", this is the root.
>
>My question is : is there any need to set the uid to 0 when creating
>packages like under debian. 
>Is there any need to do any more setting of uids for files? 
>I have been trying to port the fakeroot program to cygwin, it compiles
>and crashes. As far as I can tell, I dont need it. At least not to set
>the uid of the files to anything special. 
>
>Can someone please point me in the right direction on this, and please
>excuse my ingorance.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike
>
>
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