| Port details on branch 2026Q3 |
- fakeroot Simulate the root user behaviour
- 2.1.4 security
 =7      1.38.1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: martymac@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: 2004-05-27 22:22:47
- Last Update: 2026-09-01 10:23:15
- Commit Hash: c66b711
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- License: GPLv3
- WWW:
- 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.
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- Manual pages:
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- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
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- fakeroot>0: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
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- 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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- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
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- po4a : textproc/po4a
- meson : devel/meson
- ninja : devel/ninja
- This port is required by:
- for Build
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- archivers/urbackup-server
- devel/libdistance
- german/unix-connect
- mail/mailest
- mail/mailman
- mail/mailman-exim4
- mail/mailman-postfix
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Deleted ports which required this port:
- * - deleted ports are only shown under the This port is required by section. It was harder to do for the Required section. Perhaps later...
Configuration Options:- No options to configure
- Options name:
- security_fakeroot
- USES:
- libtool meson tar:xz
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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