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diff --git a/textproc/libtext-charwidth-perl/pkg-descr b/textproc/libtext-charwidth-perl/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7ceafd39fd0c --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/libtext-charwidth-perl/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +This is a part of fakeroot project. +Fakeroot runs a command in an environment were it appears to have +root privileges for file manipulation, by setting LD_PRELOAD to a +library with alternative versions of getuid(), stat(), etc. This +is useful for allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb .rpm +etc.) with files in them with root permissions/ownership. Without +fakeroot one would have to have root privileges to create the +constituent files of the archives with the correct permissions and +ownership, and then pack them up, or one would have to construct +the archives directly, without using the archiver. + +WWW: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fakeroot |