> OK, so now I understand the message (/home/ltratt/tmp is drwx------). That > said, the behaviour is maybe a little surprising, as I expect(ed) to be doing > everything in the upgrader as root.
Please go read rpe's mail a second time. This is ensuring that most of the installer -- based upon input -- cannot corrupt your system. It is a security move. > My personal (biased :)) preference would be to maintain the original > behaviour, as I suspect I won't be the only one caught out by this. Ah, the rich behaviour of "it worked before, it should keep working exactly the same". Please make software better, but don't break something noone ever knew anyone depended on. And do it for free. Please. > However, if the new behaviour is preferred, it might be worth > documenting it somewhere. If this was mentioned in the INSTALL notes would you have seen it before running into it? Go ahead, look at the document. Where in the document should it be. Please make sure you point out a spot that you *WOULD HAVE READ* before running into this. Then what, shall we document 50 things about the installer? Noone will read it. We already know this file is rarely downloaded. > I must admit that I don't know a sensible place to document it > without becoming over-fussy though :/ Maybe a low-tech fix is to catch the > "permission denied" message and substitute it for something like "User > <whatever the unprivileged user is called> can't access <file>", at least for > the next release while people are inducted into the new behaviour? That > message might be a bit fiddly though... I really doubt the drama of this.
