Re: Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:17:13AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:11:08AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > [Please don't send me private copies of list mail.] > > Sorry, I have a hard time keeping track of who likes cc and wh

Re: Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:11:08AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > [Please don't send me private copies of list mail.] Sorry, I have a hard time keeping track of who likes cc and who doesn't. Personally, I actually like the cc's on lists that are someti

Re: Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:11:08AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: [Please don't send me private copies of list mail.] > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > Sounds like you extracted the source package as root. Don't do that; you > > don't need to. > > Ah, thanks. > > http://www.debian.o

Re: Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:23:48AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > The owner and group were preserved on the source files so that means when > > I try to do some operations I see, for example: > > > > moseley@bumby:~/libdvdread2-0.9.3/dvdread$ touch dvd_r

Re: Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:23:48AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > The owner and group were preserved on the source files so that means when > I try to do some operations I see, for example: > > moseley@bumby:~/libdvdread2-0.9.3/dvdread$ touch dvd_reader.c > touch: creating `dvd_reader.c': Permission

Re: Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:23:48AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > $ chown moseley ~/libdvdread2-0.9.3 > chown: changing ownership of `/home/moseley/libdvdread2-0.9.3': Operation > not permitted You need to be root to chown it to your user. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Bill Moseley
I downloaded a souce package that I need to modify, build and install. The owner and group were preserved on the source files so that means when I try to do some operations I see, for example: moseley@bumby:~/libdvdread2-0.9.3/dvdread$ touch dvd_reader.c touch: creating `dvd_reader.c': Permissio