Re: daily pestering about s390 and sparc buildd failure

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Thomas, meet dchroot, dchroot, meet Thomas.
> > 
> > (base)apollock@vore:~$ dchroot -l
> > Available chroots: unstable testing stable oldstable sid sarge woody potato
> 
> Curious.
> tb@vore:~/foo$ man dchroot
> No manual entry for dchroot
> tb@vore:~/foo$ dchroot --help
> Usage: dchroot <chroot>
> Available chroots: unstable testing stable oldstable sid sarge woody potato
> tb@vore:~/foo$ dchroot sid
> Executing shell in chroot: /org/vore.debian.org/chroots/user/sid
> (unstable)tb@vore:~$ apt-get install li  xlibs-dev
> E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

Ever noticed that apt-get requires to run as root for locking
and dpkg requires root for installing packages?  Dooh.

> So that's splendid, but doesn't help me debug anything.
> 
> Perhaps this is obvious to y'all, but in the absence of someone who
> says "I volunteer to figure out why this is failing", I have to try
> myself, and the seemingly obvious tools are escaping me.

If you need some build dependencies installed, mail the admin,
which is debian-admin@lists.debian.org for our hosts.  Dude, were
you taken over by an alien recently or something?

Regards,

	Joey

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