Arthur Radley wrote: > I'm building BLFS from a recent development version. The package > font-bh-ttf-1.0.3.tar.bz2 in Xorg Fonts causes the installation script to > exit with an error... > > rm: cannot remove > 'font-bh-ttf-1.0.3/@baseconfigdir@/conf.avail/42-luxi-mono.conf': Permission > denied > rm: cannot remove > 'font-bh-ttf-1.0.3/@baseconfigdir@/conf.d/42-luxi-mono.conf': Permission > denied > > So some files did not get installed, and it wasn't really obvious either. I > might not have known except for noticing that the exit command did not > return to the previous shell but logged me out of the console. And there was > the build directory still sitting there in the font directory. > > I'm running the Xorg scripts as an ordinary user and Sudo is installed, so > the as_root function is using the sudo "if" condition. I reproduced this > issue by attempting to re-install font-bh-ttf-1.0.3 manually. The ordinary > user cannot delete this package's build directory (and perhaps others, who > knows). I could remove it with sudo. I often find that root is required to > delete build directories. > > Anyway, I don't know if this affects other people or not. What's your > opinion of adding the as_ root function to the rm -rf $packagedir command in > these Xorg scripts?
Some packages modify or create packages in the local directory when doing a make install so when you exit sudo, you can't delete those files in the directory. Just go ahead and use sudo to delete. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
