[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r23483 - in nix/branches/sqlite: scripts src/libstore src/libutil

[Michael Raskin]

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On 08/27/2010 05:57 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> Could that be the path to request, for example, 'root' access in a build?
> 
> I think of the case where a nix derivation has to create an image (squashfs,
> ubifs, ...) with devices, and only 'root' can run 'mknod'.

Maybe we should experiment with fakeroot?
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