Bug#294672: java-package: make-jpkg aborts with bogus error message

Jeroen van Wolffelaar Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>, 294672@bugs.debian.org
Fri Feb 11 03:54:03 2005


tags 294672 moreinfo
thanks

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:03:57AM +0100, Wilfred de Bondt wrote:
> Running make-jpkg simply fails like so:
> 
> wilfred@piccolo:src$ whoami
> wilfred
> wilfred@piccolo:src$ fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin
> dh_testroot: You must run this as root (or use fakeroot).
> 
> I hope, that I have submitted enough information.

Weird, looks as if fakeroot fails with you. Can you try:

fakeroot id
fakeroot ls jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin
fakeroot dh_testroot
fakeroot bash
-> (and in this subshell) id, dh_testroot, ls jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin

and submit the result to the bug?

Thanks,
--Jeroen

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