[SOLVED] ABS help - a generic question and permission issues

Yes · 2008-04-21 21:32:03

I was trying to install something from ABS, just to give it a try. I chose iftop, in /community/network. So I made the iftop directory in /home/alex/abs and copied the files from /var/abs/community/network/iftop there. Then I entered the /home/alex/abs/iftop directory and ran 'makepkg -c'. It failed, complaining that it lacked the permission to create the ~/iftop/src directory. So, what's wrong?

Also, is there any easier way to find where things are other than just looking for them in all the /var/abs directory?

Thanks!

Last edited by Yes (2008-04-22 19:02:07)

kumico · 2008-04-21 21:36:52

can you copy/paste the actual error message?
you can do `find /var/abs -name 'pkgname'`

Yes · 2008-04-21 21:59:24

[alex@arch iftop]$ makepkg -c
==> Making package: iftop 0.17-6  (Mon Apr 21 17:58:02 EDT 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/alex/abs/iftop/src': Permission denied

==> ERROR: An unknown error has occured. Exiting...

Thanks, I should have though to use find.

Last edited by Yes (2008-04-21 21:59:43)

kumico · 2008-04-21 22:08:25

hmm, are you sure you've got write access on it?
what's the output of `ls -l /home/alex/abs/iftop`

Misfit138 · 2008-04-21 22:08:38

What are the permissions of ~/abs and ~/abs/iftop ?
ls -la ~/abs
and
ls -la ~/abs/iftop

Yes · 2008-04-21 22:21:01

[alex@arch iftop]$ ls -l /home/alex/abs/iftop
total 4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 692 2008-04-21 17:11 PKGBUILD
[alex@arch iftop]$ ls -la ~/abs
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 2008-04-21 17:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 52 alex users 4096 2008-04-21 17:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 2008-04-21 17:11 iftop
[alex@arch iftop]$ ls -la ~/abs/iftop
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-04-21 17:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-04-21 17:10 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  692 2008-04-21 17:11 PKGBUILD

I see it's owned by root... what are the permissions supposed to be/how should I change them to that?

bender02 · 2008-04-21 22:56:25

You (user) should own ~/abs and everything underneath. When you copy a dir from /var/abs, just do it as user, not a root.

kumico · 2008-04-21 23:07:36

as root do
`sudo chown -R alex.users ~/abs` to fix it this time
but remember what bender02 said
you can just copy the directory with `cp -r /var/abs/...` ~/abs

Misfit138 · 2008-04-22 02:14:50

kumico wrote:

as root do
`sudo chown -R alex.users ~/abs` to fix it this time
but remember what bender02 said
you can just copy the directory with `cp -r /var/abs/...` ~/abs

Kumico is correct, but just to clarify, you don't need sudo with root.
As root, do:

chown -R alex.users ~/abs

or, if you have sudo set up, do:

sudo chown -R alex.users ~/abs

as non-root.

Yes · 2008-04-22 19:00:17

Great, thanks!

Misfit138 · 2008-04-22 19:28:11

Nice to see you got it sorted out.
Next time DO NOT CREATE OR COPY TO DIRECTORIES WITHIN YOUR HOME DIRECTORY AS ROOT.

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