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. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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