** Description changed:
The push and pop quilt subcommands call touch for each patched file. The
way it is called, touch can generate an error due to insufficient
permissions, and that error is sent straight to the terminal.
The touch call intends to set file modification times. As explained in
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/953098/change-file-time-touch Linux
does not allow changing mtime for a user which is neither root nor the
user owning the file. This means that it is impossible for several
people each owning some files to manage the same patched software, even
if they are part of the same group and that group has full permissions
on all files, unless they have access to a common account.
Either quilt should manage times in a way that does not depend on a
single user managing the software, or the failure can be considered
unimportant, and quilt should just report failures differently. The
latter approach could involve replacing touch's output with a clear
error/warning message, limiting the number of errors displayed to 1, or
adding an option to quiet such issues.
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cloph2@SWIKID02:/var/www/html/foncierpedia$ quilt pop
Removing patch tracker_prevent_edit_conflict.diff
Restoring lang/fr/language.php
Restoring lang/fr/language.js
Restoring templates/tiki-view_tracker_item.tpl
Restoring tiki-view_tracker_item.php
Restoring lib/core/Services/Tracker/Controller.php
touch: setting times of './lang/fr/language.php': Operation not permitted
cloph2@SWIKID02:/var/www/html/foncierpedia$ quilt push
touch: setting times of
'.pc/tracker_prevent_edit_conflict.diff/lang/fr/language
.php': Operation not permitted
Applying patch tracker_prevent_edit_conflict.diff
patching file lang/fr/language.js
patching file lang/fr/language.php
patching file lib/core/Services/Tracker/Controller.php
patching file templates/tiki-view_tracker_item.tpl
patching file tiki-view_tracker_item.php
Now at patch tracker_prevent_edit_conflict.diff
cloph2@SWIKID02:/var/www/html/foncierpedia$
+
Ubuntu 14.04.5, using quilt 0.61-1
+ I could not find any hint that this is fixed in quilt 0.65.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758363
Title:
push and pop warning can generate "Operation not permitted" error
Status in quilt package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
The push and pop quilt subcommands call touch for each patched file.
The way it is called, touch can generate an error due to insufficient
permissions, and that error is sent straight to the terminal.
The touch call intends to set file modification times. As explained in
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/953098/change-file-time-touch
Linux does not allow changing mtime for a user which is neither root
nor the user owning the file. This means that it is impossible for
several people each owning some files to manage the same patched
software, even if they are part of the same group and that group has
full permissions on all files, unless they have access to a common
account.
Either quilt should manage times in a way that does not depend on a
single user managing the software, or the failure can be considered
unimportant, and quilt should just report failures differently. The
latter approach could involve replacing touch's output with a clear
error/warning message, limiting the number of errors displayed to 1,
or adding an option to quiet such issues.
cloph2@SWIKID02:/var/www/html/foncierpedia$ quilt pop
Removing patch tracker_prevent_edit_conflict.diff
Restoring lang/fr/language.php
Restoring lang/fr/language.js
Restoring templates/tiki-view_tracker_item.tpl
Restoring tiki-view_tracker_item.php
Restoring lib/core/Services/Tracker/Controller.php
touch: setting times of './lang/fr/language.php': Operation not permitted
cloph2@SWIKID02:/var/www/html/foncierpedia$ quilt push
touch: setting times of
'.pc/tracker_prevent_edit_conflict.diff/lang/fr/language
.php': Operation not permitted
Applying patch tracker_prevent_edit_conflict.diff
patching file lang/fr/language.js
patching file lang/fr/language.php
patching file lib/core/Services/Tracker/Controller.php
patching file templates/tiki-view_tracker_item.tpl
patching file tiki-view_tracker_item.php
Now at patch tracker_prevent_edit_conflict.diff
cloph2@SWIKID02:/var/www/html/foncierpedia$
Ubuntu 14.04.5, using quilt 0.61-1
I could not find any hint that this is fixed in quilt 0.65.
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