[meta-freescale] [yocto] How to build yocto as a root user?

[Brian Avery]

Yocto includes pseudo which handles the things fakeroot does and a bit more
https://www.yoctoproject.org/tools-resources/projects/pseudo.

-brian
an Intel employee

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Jan Lindåker <jan.lindaker at axis.com> wrote:

>
> ________________________________________
> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org <yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org> on
> behalf of Philip Balister <philip at balister.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 15:39
> To: jags gediya; yocto at yoctoproject.org; meta-freescale at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] How to build yocto as a root user?
>
> On 08/09/2016 09:32 AM, jags gediya wrote:
> > > I am facing issues while build yocto as root user on ubuntu 14.04.
> > > How can i build as a root user?
> >
> > Do not do this, it is a terrible idea. Create a user account and build
> > there.
> >
> > Philip
>
> You are right Philip, for building with yocto/bitbake it is a bad idea. I
> only read the part with becoming root, and forgot that I do not build as
> root.
>
> However,  to be able to build a usable file system that installs on target
> I think installing fakeroot is necessary:
> $ sudo apt-get install fakeroot
> $ man fakeroot
>
> /BR Jan
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