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Re: Permission problem doing an emsource



On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 21:21 +0000, David Goodenough wrote:
> When I try to do an "emsource --verbose nano" I get:-
> 
> Checking the apt-cross cache is up to date for i386.
> Checking unstable on i386 using apt sources
> Using nano as source package for nano (2.0.7)
> W: Unable to locate package nano-udeb
> Working directory: '/'

The problem is that you need to specify a writable directory in debconf
(the question does ask for a writable directory).

The default is to support chroot usage (where emsource is being run as
root anyway).

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure emdebian-tools
Enter a *writable* directory - one that is writable by the same user
that you expect to be using when calling emdebian-tools scripts.

> Looks like the problem is the permissions on the directory it wants to 
> use for the emdebian patches, but unfortunately the error message gives no
> clue as to where this directory it.

It outputs the working directory at the very start but I will implement
a test and an earlier error message.


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