bad owner on /var/empty: RH6.2 sparc 3.4p1

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Darren Tucker wrote:
> I don't see how a fake root (ie "make install DESTDIR=/some/dir") as a
> vanilla user helps create a root-owned directory.......

fakeroot is not a fake root, it fakes root.

[tornado;~]-15> dpkg -p fakeroot
Package: fakeroot
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 136
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje at debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.4.5-2.3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810)
Filename: dists/woody/mirror/binary-i386/fakeroot_0.4.5-2.3.deb
Size: 32848
MD5sum: a5194884c1bc44095e3b0b0ff039f622
Description: Gives a fake root environment.
 This package is intended to enable something like:
   dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
 i.e. to remove the need to become root for a package build.
 This is done by setting LD_PRELOAD to libfakeroot.so,
 which provides wrappers around getuid, chown, chmod, mknod,
 stat, ..., thereby creating a fake root environment.
 .
 If you don't understand any of this, you do not need fakeroot!

Wichert.

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