opnsense-ports/security/fakeroot/pkg-descr
Franco Fichtner 8cb1a96ede ports: pull in a snapshot of the FreeBSD ports tree
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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.
WWW: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fakeroot