As an FYI, this issue is being tracked here: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=5080
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/19/2010 07:44 AM, Magnus wrote: > > Well, I just found that tar tvfz <eclipse-archive> shows "tomcat/ > > users" as the owner of the files. > > > > I think that this UID corresponds to my "Debian-exim" id. > > > > However, I extract the tar files with "tar xvfz". > > > > Magnus > > OK. I can reproduce what you're seeing. > > I cannot explain, even when you install the GPE into the archive, it > doesn't work. When you install as root, it does (did I get that right?) > > One further question (I think the answer to this is "yes") do you delete > the eclipse directory before installing? That's one of the reasons I use > update-alternatives. After extracting the archive, I move the directory > to the specific version: "mv eclipse eclipse-3.6" and use > update-alternatives to point to that directory. In this way, I can be > sure of a clean installation, and I also have a backup version in case > things go sideways. > > Anyway, after extracting the archive as "tar xvzf <archive>" the > directory is owned by root:root, but the ownership of files in that > hasn't changed (still tomcat/users). > > So, I used the following tar command > tar --owner=root --no-same-owner -vxzf > /tmp/eclipse-jee-helios-linux-gtk.tar.gz > > > > > On Jul 18, 7:12 am, Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> On 07/17/2010 08:23 PM, Magnus wrote: > >>>> Hi Rajeev! > >> > >>>>>> I always installed eclipse as root, i. e. extracting the tar archive > >>>>>> as root into /usr/local/eclipse and changing the ownership of all > >>>>>> files and folders to root. > >> > >>>>> You shouldn't need to change the ownership. If you're really > extracting > >>> the > >>>>> files as root, then they are already owned by root. > >> > >>>> No: > >>>> drwxr-sr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-07-18 05:07 . > >>>> drwxr-sr-x 12 root root 4096 2010-07-12 19:10 .. > >>>> drwxrwsr-x 9 Debian-exim users 4096 2010-06-17 17:15 eclipse > >> > >> Do you remember the tar command you use to extract the files? I'm > wondering > >> if you're preserving the owner specified in the ** archive. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
