README.packaging

Building fakeroot-ng is fairly straight forward. Generally, it follows the
standard path of configure, make, make install. Packagers are highly advised
to use the --with-memdir configure option to direct the temporary files
creation to a directory that is guaranteed to be mounted on a ram disk.

Fakeroot-ng is perfectly fine installed on the same system as fakeroot. At
least on Debian derived systems, fakeroot installs itself through the
alternatives system, so you can use it to pick whether to run the sysv or tcp
versions. Since the basic command line is the same for fakeroot and fakeroot-ng
it is possible to use that system to give the user the option to use
fakeroot-ng when running plain "fakeroot". For most cases, that will work as
is.

Please note that the only platforms supported by fakeroot-ng at the moment are
x86_64, i386 and ppc (32 bit only). Further platform support is conditioned on
the developer getting access to such a platform.