On Tuesday 26 February 2008 04:09:48 Leszek Koltunski wrote: > try running make-googleearth-package as root. You will notice it download > the GoogleEarthLinux.bin installer, then it merrily announces 'Success!' > but the package is nowhere to be found!
Well, I'll address this issue, but one thing that comes to mind is that running make-googleearth-package as root is actually not a great idea, since it actually has to execute (and thus trust) the binary it downloads in order to extract files. The next version will disallow running as root unless you --force it. > Running it as normal user works as expected, (the .deb is found in > current directory.) > > A little investigation revealed that this is due to incorrect permissions > of the 'control' directory: > 1) open up /usr/bin/make-googleearth-package and in line 397 remove the > '>&2' from the 'dpkg-deb' command BTW, to find problems easily, just use --verbose. It used to be the default, but too many people complained about all the output, so --quiet is now the default. > 2) now you will notice the script fail with > > dpkg-deb: building package `googleearth' in > `./googleearth_4.2.205.5730+0.5.3-1_i386.deb'. dpkg-deb: control > directory has bad permissions 2755 (must be >=0755 and <=0775) I'm not sure why this is happening; I can't reproduce it here either running it as root or using sudo. I really have no idea how you're getting the sticky bit set on the control file... But one definite bug is that the return code of dpkg-deb isn't getting checked properly; hence the "Success!" when it actually failed. I'll address that in the next version as well. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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