Re: [PATCH] debianize: set Rules-Requires-Root in debian/control

[Zhihang Wei <wzh@ilbers.de>]

v2 was applied to next, thanks.

Best regards,
Zhihang

On 8/14/25 16:34, Isaac True wrote:
> Setting "Rules-Requires-Root: no" in the debian/control file avoids
> unnecessarily calling fakeroot in the build environment. Packages which
> require root can override the new "DEBIAN_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT" variable
> with the desired value.
>
> This is specifically useful when using dpkg-raw, as it no longer needs
> fakeroot to create the packages. This provides a considerable speedup in
> some environments (e.g. systems with very high open file descriptor
> limits and specific versions of fakeroot).
>
> Signed-off-by: Isaac True <itrue@emlix.com>
> ---
>   meta/classes/debianize.bbclass | 5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass b/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
> index 4989c601..eeebea69 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ DEBIAN_BREAKS ??= ""
>   DEBIAN_MULTI_ARCH ??= "no"
>   DEBIAN_COMPAT ??= "10"
>   DEBIAN_CHANGELOG_TIMESTAMP ??= "3600"
> +DEBIAN_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT ??= "no"
>   DESCRIPTION ??= "must not be empty"
>   MAINTAINER ??= "Unknown maintainer <unknown@example.com>"
>   
> @@ -74,7 +75,8 @@ deb_create_control[vardeps] += "DEBIANIZE_BUILD_DEPENDS \
>                                   DEBIAN_PROVIDES \
>                                   DEBIAN_REPLACES \
>                                   DEBIAN_BREAKS \
> -                                DEBIAN_CONFLICTS"
> +                                DEBIAN_CONFLICTS \
> +                                DEBIAN_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT"
>   deb_create_control() {
>   	cat << EOF > ${S}/debian/control
>   Source: ${BPN}
> @@ -83,6 +85,7 @@ Priority: optional
>   Standards-Version: 3.9.6
>   Maintainer: ${MAINTAINER}
>   Build-Depends: ${@ deb_list_beautify(d, 'DEBIANIZE_BUILD_DEPENDS')}
> +Rules-Requires-Root: ${DEBIAN_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT}
>   
>   Package: ${BPN}
>   Architecture: ${DPKG_ARCH}
>

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "isar-users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to isar-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/isar-users/5be1d0fb-292e-4144-95a8-02228aaf017c%40ilbers.de.