Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>]

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 16:02 -0700, bsquared wrote:
> I have installed jhbuild in a basic LFS environment using standard build 
> tools: configure --prefix=/usr ; make && make install.  files[1] are 
> installed to /usr.  But modulsets dir remained with source, so I copied 
> to user dir /usr/src/jhbuild (jhbuild user's home). I changed
> modulesets_dir = os.path.join(SRCDIR, 'modulesets') to
> modulesets_dir = os.path.expanduser('~/modulesets') in
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jhbuild/defaults.jhbuildrc"
> 
> I made a very simple .jhbuildrc for testing with bootstrap:
> 
> moduleset = ''
> modules = [ ]
> checkoutroot = '/sources/'
> prefix = '/usr'
> 
> I get this error:
> 
> jhbuild [ ~ ]$ jhbuild bootstrap
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/jhbuild", line 31, in <module>
>      jhbuild.main.main(sys.argv[1:])
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jhbuild/main.py", line 130, in 
> main
>      config = jhbuild.config.Config(options.configfile)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jhbuild/config.py", line 194, 
> in __init__
>      self.setup_env()
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jhbuild/config.py", line 448, 
> in setup_env
>      os.makedirs(gconfpathdir)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 150, in makedirs
>      makedirs(head, mode)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 150, in makedirs
>      makedirs(head, mode)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
>      mkdir(name, mode)
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/etc'
> 
> So, it seems that it does not like this configuration.
> 
> Any ideas are appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> Thank you,
> -Brian
> 
> LFS 6.8 with More Control and Package Management using Package Users

I don't exactly follow, but did you ensure that '/usr/etc' belongs to a
group named 'install' (if you followed the suggestion of that elegant
LFS package management system)? Did you ensure that jhbuild is a member
of that group?

Another thing is that if you are going to be using jhbuild (and just to
confirm), are you going to be having the all packages built by it use
the same package user?