Public bug reported: 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 ** Affects: quilt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758363 Title: push and pop warning can generate "Operation not permitted" error To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quilt/+bug/1758363/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
