Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

[bsquared <bwcode4u gmail com>]

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> 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?
Thank you for resonding.
Regarding your first question.  I currently do not have a /usr/etc 
folder.  I would prefer setting be stored in /etc or /etc/jhbuild. As to 
you second question, I want jhbuild to be available to all pkgusrs. For 
example, a user named xorg will use jhbuild to build the modules in it's 
~/.jhbuildrc andmodulesets directory while user gnome-core would have a 
different config file and modulesets directory.

Does that make sense?  Is it possible?

Thanks, Brian