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.
True, that was just me being lazy.
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.
Ok, however I have the opposite impression: make-googleearth-package
performs potentially lenghty operations like downloading a 24MB file from
the Internet while keeping totally silent. User is left wondering what's
going on. After 30 seconds I started suspecting that the script is
hanging.
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...
Today I also couldn't reproduce it at first; then I did everything exactly
like yesterday and now I see what's going on.
You see, I - and I suspect many other people interested in
googleearth-package - had GoogleEarth running in my system before, just
the one directly downloded from google. By default it lands in
/usr/local/google-earth/*
So I decided to put everything where it was before ; thus
$ su
$ apt-get install googleearth-package
$ cd /usr/local/
$ rm -rf google-earth
$ mkdir googleearth-debian
$ cd googleearth-debian
$ make-googleearth-package
Now, because directory /usr/local/ has the sticky bit set, every other
directory inside inherits the bit.
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