obmtool install failure on centOS 4.4

[Andreas Micklei]

Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2007 schrieb Mark Seagrief:
> When I built 2.1 on Ubuntu (7.04) recently (also tried RHEL4 update 42 with
> same results) I had the same problem, the problem was a permissions one -
> when it was trying to build the packages it was switching to a different
> user (one of the kolab ones I think) which didn't have permissions to
> access/move the files it was trying to build.
>
> The error that I was getting was that the rpm was missing - it was missing
> because it was never built as a result of the build failing.
>
> I ended up editing the obmtool script and changing line 372 to read:
> BUILDUSER=root
>
> Instead of letting it figure out the user.  Now this is probably not the
> best solution, but I have not had time to go back out and figure out the
> proper solution.
>
> I was root when I started the build and the files that were downloaded were
> all owned by root.
>
> Not sure if that helps at all.

Thanks, that absolutely did the trick!

All RPMs did build cleanly (with slight massage on gmp and clamav as 
documented in the wiki).  Now upgrading to 2.1 should finally work. :-)

Any idea why this permission problem occured? I am sure this issue does not 
come up too often, otherwise obmtool would not be as it is, right? Also as 
said before it did not occur with kolab 2.0.3.

regards,
Andreas Micklei

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