#fakeroot — Public Fediverse posts
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Today I realized, that the history of the #fakeroot project has recently been... well... completely rewritten, all tags have been deleted and recreated (this apparently happened multiple times in the past already and upstream is not reacting to mails).
I guess you can imagine how much "fun" that is for downstreams that try to rely on this software in their critical infrastructure (building packages), while regressions happen in addition...
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I have just released a small #RustLang library for running commands as root as an unprivileged user - aka #rootless. 🦀
https://crates.io/crates/rootless-run/0.1.0
It has been created in the context of the #ALPM project to allow running commands using #fakeroot or #rootlesskit and paves the way for a simple Rust-based implementation.
In the future we plan to use it in the ALPM project to run commands that require root as unprivileged user.