Re: required to be root? (Was: Debian development using ...)
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, David H. Munro wrote:
> I tried
> dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo
> It seemed to work, with sudo prompting me for passwords at the clean
> and binary targets, but not for the build target.
>
> However, during the latter parts of the binary target processing by
> debmstd things started going wrong:
>
> -- Running dpkg-shlibdeps on ELF Binaries
> dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: chown of `substvars.new': No such file or directory
> -- Checking Symlinks
> dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek
> dpkg-deb: failed to open package info file `debian/yorick-dev/tmp/DEBIAN/control' for reading: No such file or directory
>
> There are several more similar problems, ending with:
>
> -- Running dpkg-shlibdeps on ELF Binaries
> dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: chown of `substvars.new': No such file or directory
> -- Compressing/Converting Manpages
> -- Compressing Info files
> -- Compressing Documentation
> -- Checking Symlinks
> dpkg-gencontrol -pyorick
> dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek
> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 29
>
> When I run
> dpkg-buildpackage
> as root, everything works fine. My sudoers file gives me ALL=(ALL) ALL
> but perhaps I have misinstalled sudo, although it does let me do other
> things as root. Or is the problem something subtle with debmstd or
> dpkg-gencontrol?
These are the same symptoms I received when trying to run these
tools in an emacs shell. The solution was to run in a real shell
like xterm. This is supposedly a well known limitation of these
tools.
--- Jean Pierre
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