Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/24/13 17:38 CST: >> Randy, I 'm not 100% sure the problem is in the tarball. Many times I'll do >> >> make DESTDIR=/tmp/pkgname install >> >> and the user will be me, not root.
> If you did that as the root user, then the package is broken. I see it very, > very, rarely. Berkeley DB comes to mind. However, my build script for > xulrunner (from a year and a half ago) contains commands to chown files. > Just like we are seeing now. Trust me, I performed 'make install' as the > root user and the installed files have ownership of the user that performed > the build. To me, this is broken behavior. No, I don't do that as root. Most packages don't need that, but as you note, some do. Checking my xulrunner script, I see that I did need to install as root, even to DESTDIR. > There are very few packages that install files with ownership other than > root:root when you run 'make install' as the root user. Firefox (xulrunner) > is one of the few. That is why I say it is an upstream issue. I have not > examined the Makefiles, as it doesn't matter, the files still are installed > with bad ownership and should be fixed as a post-installation task. > I do wonder; however, how your Firefox installation ended up with root:root > ownership. Mine doesn't, the original poster's doesn't and my build script > shows that I needed to change ownership before my latest installation. Looking at my log, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/xulrunner-16.0.1.log, I don't see where the install is actually done. They use a command, nsinstall, that is not very verbose. The install starts about line 29852 (of 36513). Look for "BLFS Start INSTALL", but I didn't see much that would be useful. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
