Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>]

On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 10:05 -0700, bsquared wrote:
> 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.

Interesting approach there.

> Does that make sense?  Is it possible?

Have you tried using './configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc' for
jhbuild?