Re: Usage of dpkg under cygwin

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 21:30, Paul Baker wrote:
> [...]
> This is absolutely needed to properly build debian packages. Otherwise 
> files can not be created with the proper permissions before they are 
> actually tar'd up and included in a debian binary package. 

AFAIK a package cannot be installed properly if all files have
userrights of Jimmy, that's why this need to be done with UID 0 (which
means root in U*ix or admin in win). Correct me if I'm wrong.

        -- hgb