java pkg feedback on sun/sparc arch

Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina mihamina@mail.rktmb.org
Wed Mar 9 13:36:05 2005


Hello

I run Debian testing on a sparc ultra-5
(I may not run Unstable)

I tried to make a debian package with
j2sdk-1.4.1-01-linux-sparc-gcc3.2.bin

If I do it beeing root:
[I just ran 'make-jpkg' (without any leading 'fakeroot')]
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###########################################
You are real root -- unfortunately, some Java distributions have
install scripts that directly manipulate /etc, and may cause some
inconsistencies on your system. Instead, you should become a
non-root user and run:

fakeroot make-jpkg j2sdk-1.4.1-01-linux-sparc-gcc3.2.bin

which will allow no damage to be done to your system files and
still permit the Java distribution to successfully extract.

Aborting.
###########################################

Then if I ran as user:
###########################################
[...]
mkdir: cannot create directory `/etc/.java': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `/etc/.java/.systemPrefs': No such file
or directory
touch: cannot touch `/etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.system.lock': No such file
or directory
chmod: cannot access `/etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.system.lock': No such
file or directory
touch: cannot touch `/etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.systemRootModFile': No
such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.systemRootModFile': No
such file or directory
[...]
###########################################

and the package creation came on... untill its end.
I have not tested any "hello world" yet, but it seems it went correctly.

Are theese errors important or not?
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