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Fakeroot-ng is a ptrace based program that fools a program into thinking it is running as root. The fact it is ptrace based allows more complete simulation of the root environment than previous implementations, such as fakroot and fakechroot.

Version 0.18 supports several important bug fixes and enhancements. Unless something unexpected pops up, this will be the last beta version before version 1.0 is declared ready for general consumption.

Fakeroot-ng is a ptrace based program that fools a program into thinking it is running as root. The fact it is ptrace based allows more complete simulation of the root environment than previous implementations, such as fakroot and fakechroot.

Version 0.17 supports faking process credentials other than root's. Fakeroot-ng can now run processes that think they are running as any UID/GID. At the moment, file ownership is affected by this change, but file access permissions are not.

Fakeroot-ng is a ptrace based program that fools a program into thinking it is running as root. The fact it is ptrace based allows more complete simulation of the root environment than previous implementations, such as fakroot and fakechroot.

This version contains quite a few changes, the total sum of them is that fakeroot-ng now supports all standard Linux variations, including the Fedora and RedHat kernels, that were not supported until now.

Fakeroot-ng is a ptrace based program that fools a program into thinking it is running as root. The fact it is ptrace based allows more complete simulation of the root environment than previous implementations, such as fakroot and fakechroot.

This version contains a few bug fixes, as well as a change in mode manipulation that allows "root" to access files for which it supposedly has not permission to access.

Fakeroot-ng is a ptrace based program that fools a program into thinking it is running as root. The fact it is ptrace based allows more complete simulation of the root environment than previous implementations, such as fakroot and fakechroot.

Many many many improvements in this release. Faster build system, support for attaching a new instance to an existing state, noexec temp dir improvements and much more.

Fakeroot-ng is a ptrace based program that fools a program into thinking it is running as root. The fact it is ptrace based allows more complete simulation of the root environment than previous implementations, such as fakroot and fakechroot.

This version now has complete support for the "chroot" syscall. Please be sure to read the "NEWS" file for caveats.

Fakeroot-ng is a ptrace based program that fools a program into thinking it is running as root. The fact it is ptrace based allows more complete simulation of the root environment than previous implementations, such as fakroot and fakechroot.

This version now supports the "chroot" syscall for most APIs. Please be sure to read the "NEWS" file for caveats.

Also, version 0.10 was released with a major problem in fork and vfork handling. Please do not use it.

Fakeroot-ng is a ptrace based program that fools a program into thinking it is running as root. The fact it is ptrace based allows more complete simulation of the root environment than previous implementations, such as fakroot and fakechroot.

Main new feature is support for recursive debuggers on the x86_64 platform.

Fakeroot-ng is a ptrace based program that fools a program into thinking it is running as root. The fact it is ptrace based allows more complete simulation of the root environment than previous implementations, such as fakroot and fakechroot.

Aside from a lot of cleanups inside the code, version 0.08 brings initial support (no 32 bit and no recursive debuggers, yet) for the Linux/x86_64 platform. Also new in this release are helpers to make porting to a new platform easier.

Fakeroot-ng is a ptrace based program that fools a program into thinking it is running as root. The fact it is ptrace based allows more complete simulation of the root environment than previous implementations, such as fakroot and fakechroot.

Version 0.06 improves the support for recursive debuggers. It also expands the functions handled by fakeroot, to also include the "*at" functions (openat, fstatat etc) in newer Linux kernels.

Fakeroot-ng is a ptrace based program that fools a program into thinking it is running as root. The fact it is ptrace based allows more complete simulation of the root environment than previous implementations, such as fakroot and fakechroot.

Version 0.05 adds support for recursive debuggers. It is now possible to run "strace" from within the fake root environment.

Fakeroot-ng is a ptrace based program that fools a program into thinking it is running as root. The fact it is ptrace based allows more complete simulation of the root environment than previous implementations, such as fakroot and fakechroot.

Version 0.04 adds support for Linux/PowerPC for fakeroot-ng.

Fakeroot-ng is a ptrace based program that fools a program into thinking it is running as root. The fact it is ptrace based allows more complete simulation of the root environment than previous implementations, such as fakroot and fakechroot.

Version 0.03 is a version with complete functionality as far as a single fakeroot instace goes with no attempt to change uid or to chroot. Support for multi-instances and for chroot will come in later versions.