Port details on branch 2023Q3
fakeroot Simulate the root user behaviour
2.1.4 security Σ 2.1.4Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. Maintainer: martymac@FreeBSD.org Port Added: 2004-05-27 22:22:47Last Update: 2026-09-01 10:23:15Commit Hash: c66b711 People watching this port, also watch: curl , nmap , rsync , zip , p5-libwww License: GPLv3WWW: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fakeroot Description: # 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. Manual pages: #
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist # USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines :
For RUN/BUILD depends:fakeroot>0:security/fakeroot For LIB depends:libfakeroot-0.so:security/fakeroot libfakeroot.so:security/fakeroot To install the port : # cd /usr/ports/security/fakeroot/ && make install clean To add the package , run one of these commands: pkg install security/fakeroot pkg install fakeroot PKGNAME: fakeroot Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port. # distinfo: # TIMESTAMP = 1787772428
SHA256 (fakeroot_2.1.4.orig.tar.xz) = 0822bd5a9f0cf19d2ba0546b88b0432d4d3d9917db62c57b74044ccadba06e49
SIZE (fakeroot_2.1.4.orig.tar.xz) = 115748
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po4a : textproc/po4a meson : devel/meson ninja : devel/ninja
This port is required by: # for Build #
archivers/urbackup-server devel/libdistance german/unix-connect mail/mailest mail/mailman mail/mailman-exim4 mail/mailman-postfix
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archivers/py-borgbackup
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