On Tuesday 20 May 2008 01:51, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > That's not what this is about. /var is good. Having fontconfig fail to > build because /opt/foss exists and has the wrong permissions is not -- > earlier specfiles should then set up the permissions properly.
Here's an illustration: -bash-3.00$ ls -lad /opt/foss drwxr-xr-x 7 adridg nogroup 7 May 20 02:02 /opt/foss With that directory already existing (and with clearly bad ownership) I started building packages. a52dec, amrnb, amrwb build and install just fine, so does freetype, fontconfig fails with The following files are already installed on the system and are being used by another package: * /opt/foss <attribute change only> That is all. If we add a tiny specfile for the hierarchy, we can kill that problem at the very beginning of package building. [ade]
