On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 02:30:01PM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > I had to give up on this and see if anybody else had an idea. I was > fixing up the powerpc patch package for 2.2.12 and found this odd error > during the build process. > > The rules file for a kernel build calls make-kpkg which runs "run-parts" > over the /usr/src/kernel-patches/powerpc/apply/ directory. In that > directory is the 0powerpc script which applies the diff present with "zcat > <file> | patch -l -s -p1" and stamps the top level so apply/unapply can > see if the patch was already applied. > > Unfortunately, the zcat | patch line fails and run-parts claims that the > script is returning an error 139. What's even better is that I cannot > reproduce this error by running the 0powerpc script directly from the > shell...the apply/unapply process works fine.
Lesson learned...fakeroot doesn't work for this particular operation. I now use sudo to avoid this problem. :-/ -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.
