On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 20:24:47 +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:11:35AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:59:50AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > > I just tried on my home box (amd64/sid), and cannot reproduce the error > > > > you describe on recompiling cryptgps. > > > mmmh, this is strange, I really don't see how can it built find for you: > > > the cdbs class now invokes > > > /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/ocamldoc-api-ref-config and that file is not > > > executable here: > > > > > > $ ls -l /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/ocamldoc-api-ref-config > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2238 2007-12-17 13:41 > > > /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/ocamldoc-api-ref-config > > > > > > Can you please check whether the above file is executable for you or > > > not? > > It is indeed executable on my machine : > > % ls -l /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/ocamldoc-api-ref-config > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2238 2007-11-10 17:27 > /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/ocamldoc-api-ref-config > > This is ocaml-nox 3.10.0-9 on amd64. > The amd64 package in the archive is fine. On all other architectures, that file has mode 0644.
> Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >My guess is that the file was executable on the original builder's machine, > >which appeared to be amd64 from the buildd page. Therefore, the amd64 > >packages have the file executable (as I can verify, as the package also > >builds fine for me using a vanilla pbuilder amd64 chroot). But since > >dpkg-source doesn't preserve permissions on new files created by the .diff.gz > >part of the source package, any binaries built by the buildd's (or built from > >source on amd64 as happened in my case) won't have it executable. > > If I undestand right this could only happen when the file in question is > part of the tarball, but this doesn't seem to be the case : > > % ar x ocaml-nox_3.09.2-9_amd64.deb > % tar tvfz data.tar.gz | grep ocamldoc-api-ref-config > <no output lines> > This is about the source package. The amd64 deb was built from an svn checkout, where this file was +x. On other architectures, it was built from the unpacked source package. Since this file isn't in the orig tarball, it's created from the diff.gz, and so isn't executable. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
