On 3/22/07, Andreas Koenig via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thu Mar 22 00:20:27 2007: Request 25627 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by ANDK
Queue: ExtUtils-Install
Subject: Bogus failure "Do not have write permissions on '/etc'"
Broken in: 1.39_01, 1.40, 1.41, 1.41_01, 1.41_02, 1.41_03
Severity: (no value)
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status: new
Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25627 >
PARDUS/Zoidberg-0.96.tar.gz uncovers the following bug in
ExtUtils::Install introduced in 1.39_01:
% ./Build install
[...]
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ERROR: Can't create '/etc'
Do not have write permissions on '/etc'
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ExtUtils::Install should not try to create existing directories and
should not examine if I would be able to create it.
Well, it only does that if it is told to install a directory. But it
does have to do this type of logic for a fake install.
It's there and this is what counts.
I agree in principle. I /think/ that this is actually a problem with
Zoidberg and or Module::Build, (not sure which).
Zoidberg would only install an /etc/zoidrc which I would
be allowed to overwrite because the file belongs to me. So it does not
count that I can neither write to / nor to /etc/ in general. All that
should count is that I can overwrite /etc/zoidrc.
I have verified this bug exists up to 1.41_03
I cant say absolutely for sure, but im not sure if this really is an EU:I bug.
Specifically, it would appear that Module::Build is including the
directory /etc in its install list, and not just the file /etc/zoidrc.
Its hard to say really what should be done about this. /etc/ is a
special case that the install code hasnt been desgined to deal with.
In short it assumes that if its installing a directory that the
directory must be writable. Changing this would not be straightforward
and im reluctant to do it because of this package alone. Im inlinced
to think that MB / zoidberg should be passing in the exact file from
the /etc/ directory and not trying to use the directory copy process.
Anyway, further thoughts appreciated, and ive cc'ed the Module::Build
folks to see what they think.
Cheers,
Yves
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