Re: Permission problem doing an emsource
On Sunday 16 March 2008, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 22:27 +0000, David Goodenough wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 March 2008, Neil Williams wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Well the dpkg-reconfigure never asked me for a directory. There were
> > only two questions, one about using apt-get and the other my svn login (I
> > do not have one so I left that blank).
>
> Ah, I'm guessing this is 0.8.5 or later?
>
> try:
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure emdebian-rootfs
>
> The question has migrated into the rootfs .config script with the
> package split but it should still have been asked originally when you
> first installed the split packages.
>
> IIRC it is safe to ask debconf to ask the same question twice so I may
> have to do that (as both packages use this setting).
Great, that fixed it. Thank you.
David
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