2008/5/9 Michael Homer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Thu, 08 May 2008 19:32:51 +0200, Daniele Maccari < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hello everybody, > >> > >> I was trying to create a recipe for OpenOffice 2.4.0, so I simply > >> newversioned the preexistent recipe. However, after having manually > >> fixed the recipe a little I found a problem in the installation phase, > >> namely it seems that Compile doesn't correctly recognize some > >> directories as such. The problem seems to be related to these lines > >> (starting at line 1445 of Compile) > >> > >> if [ -d "$src" -a -d "$fulldst" ] > >> then $sudo_exec cp -R "$src"/* "$fulldst" > >> else $sudo_exec cp -R $src "$fulldst" > >> fi > >> > >> In fact, when trying to copy files from /usr/share and > >> /opt/OpenOffice2.4/share to Shared the if check seems to not work as > >> expected, thus treating share as a simple file to copy under Shared, > >> leading to /P/OpenOffice/2.4.0_bin/Shared/share, which prevent the > >> pre_link function to correctly perform its task of symlinking desktop > >> entries. > > > > That's because the '-d' test returns false for symlinks and during an > > install 'Shared' is a symlink to 'share', hence the second alternative > > is being executed. Personally I don't see why PrepareProgram creates > > Shared->share instead of share->Shared. I guess it's a legacy. ;) > Are you sure? I wondered about that, but: > ~]bash > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~][ -d /bin ] && echo /bin is a directory ; ls -l /bin > /bin is a directory > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-04-19 10:46 /bin -> System/Links/Executables > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] > > On the other hand, I don't see what else causes that problem. > -Michael > <http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel> > I first thought about a permission problem, since /usr/share, to say, seems to be owned by gobo:sys (don't ask me why, I believe this to come from the rpms unpacking procedure), but also running Compile as root didn't give any better result. However, I wouldn't want this problem to be openoffice related, so we should probably find some manifest recipe to test (if what Jonas pointed out were the problem, I think trying to copy something under bin, lib etc would cause problem too, wouldn't it?)
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