[Buildroot] chown to root does not work

Bernhard Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Mon Jan 22 20:30:49 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:02:53PM +0100, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:35PM +0100, Thilo Riessner wrote:
>>Am Freitag, 19. Januar 2007 17:33 schrieben Sie:
>>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Thilo Riessner wrote:
>>> >Am Freitag, 19. Januar 2007 14:35 schrieb Goetz Bock:
>>> >> On Fri, Jan 19 '07 at 13:31, Thilo Riessner wrote:
>>> >> > In the docs is mentioned, that one doesn't need to be root to build a
>>> >> > root filesystem. But when building the filesystem as a normal user,
>>> >> > chown is not able to change owner to root in the target filesystem. Is
>>> >> > there a solution of the problem, that I don't see?
>>>
>>> Who does call chown in there? Which package?
>>> Please show me the logs around the alleged call to chown that is
>>> failing.

I've updated fakeroot, both the old version and the new one work for me.
Please update, make dirclean && make and let me know if you still get
this error..



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