Hi,
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Peter Gervai writes ("Bug#467024: dpkg: "control directory has bad
> permissions" message could be more helpful"):
> > dpkg-deb: control directory has bad permissions 2755 (must be >=0755 and
> > <=0775)make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2
> >
> > should include this hint, because it's pretty hard to figure out anyway:
> > "(maybe you're building in a setgid directory?)"
> > ..because exactly that's what usually happening.
What package were you trying to build? I believe that any modern package
using debhelper or similar tools probably fixes the right on the temporary
directory (thought I haven't checked).
> Someone building a package should know that the problem with an actual
> mode of 2755 when compared with a maximum of 0775 is that 2755 has bit
> 2000 set, and that 2000 is the setgid bit. If there is any confusion
> at all then the relevant manpages (eg, chmod, I think) ought to answer
> it.
It's not obvious to everybody and I dislike the way you ditch such user
problems. Maybe changing the error message is not the best solution, that
doesn't mean there's nothing to improve.
Why doesn't dpkg-deb fix the right on the directory by removing any
special rights for example?
> So I think this error message is abundantly clear to its intended
> target audience.
I think you have no idea how many users may want to recompile packages
occasionnaly.
Cheers,
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