Technical Question; Can Fakeroot be made portable? If a specific app that

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Technical Question; Can Fakeroot be made portable? If a specific app that

unnecessarily needs root access can be made work fine with fakeroot, does that mean it its self and a portable version of Fakeroot can be bundled together to makeup an Appimage version of that app?
Is it theoretically feasible, so for one to decide to invest time on it?

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04.02.2024

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Martin Rys
Why couldn't it? Doesn't seem too bad on Arch. d...

(newbie to linux) well perhaps if the Fakeroot mechanism messes with kernal or has some other dependency that can not be made portable, better ask than not know

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Arman 🐡🌀
(newbie to linux) well perhaps if the Fakeroot mec...

It would mostly depend on the behaviour of the program and what it does. But if it needs the root access without reason, then it may be fine. It replaces some functions to make the process belief its running as root, but it is limited to the permissions the user has. Btw. open() is completly unwrapped and will never be a part of the wrapper to prevent loops.

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Martin Rys · Accepted Answer

Martin Rys

Why couldn't it? Doesn't seem too bad on Arch. depends=('glibc' 'filesystem' 'sed' 'util-linux' 'sh')

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