DH_TESTROOT(1) Debhelper DH_TESTROOT(1)
NAME
dh_testroot - ensure that a package is built with necessary level of root permissions
SYNOPSIS
dh_testroot [debhelperoptions]
DESCRIPTION
dh_testroot is used to determine if the package has access to at least the level of root access that it declared it needed via the Rules-
Requires-Root (R3) field.
The following is how dh_testroot behaves based on the effective value of the R3 field:
"binary-targets"
dh_testroot asserts that it is run as root or under fakeroot(1).
"no"
dh_testroot returns successfully.
Any other value than the above
dh_testroot asserts that it is either run as root (or under fakeroot(1)) or the builder has provided the DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD environment
variable (e.g. via dpkg-buildpackage -r).
For backwards compatibility, dh_testroot will consider the absence of the R3 field as if the R3 field was set to "binary-targets".
SEE ALSO
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
11.1.6ubuntu2 2018-05-10 DH_TESTROOT(1)