Re: Permissions on source package

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:23:48AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> The owner and group were preserved on the source files so that means when
> I try to do some operations I see, for example:
> 
> moseley@bumby:~/libdvdread2-0.9.3/dvdread$ touch dvd_reader.c
> touch: creating `dvd_reader.c': Permission denied
> 
> moseley@bumby:~/libdvdread2-0.9.3/dvdread$ ls -l !$
> ls -l dvd_reader.c
> -rw-rw-r--    1 6581     30099       26332 May 19  2002 dvd_reader.c

Sounds like you extracted the source package as root. Don't do that; you
don't need to.

> $ chown moseley ~/libdvdread2-0.9.3
> chown: changing ownership of `/home/moseley/libdvdread2-0.9.3': Operation
> not permitted
> 
> Did I miss a step in downloading the source package?

Having extracted the source package as root, you'll now need to be root
to fix it.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]