Re: Problems installing as root

From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Date: Feb 25, 2007, 15:42 UTC
Message-ID: <ersapr$bu5$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070225061258.GA1415@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>> First, 'make install' as root leaves dozens of files owned by root
>> in my personal source directory.

> Which files, specifically? ...

~/src/git $find . -user 0 ./git-fsck-objects ./git-archive ./git-cherry ./git-whatchanged ./git-annotate ./git-status ./git-merge-octopus ./git-show ./git-update-index ./git-format-patch ./git-quiltimport ./git-verify-pack ./git-rev-list ./git-cvsserver ./git-runstatus ./git-pull ./git-merge-file ./git-log ./git-repack ./git-mailinfo ./git-rm ./git-applypatch ./git-parse-remote ./git-reset ./git-mailsplit ./git-for-each-ref ./git-svnimport ./git-grep ./git-write-tree ./git-ls-files ./git-add--interactive ./git-verify-tag ./git-prune ./git-diff ./git-rebase ./git-branch ./git-check-ref-format ./git-push ./git-cat-file ./git-prune-packed ./git-merge-stupid ./git-mv ./git-merge-ours ./git-add ./git-name-rev ./git-merge-base ./git-read-tree ./git-commit-tree ./git-ls-remote ./git-tag ./git-init ./git-init-db ./git-rev-parse ./git-pack-refs ./git ./git-show-branch ./git-commit ./git-get-tar-commit-id ./git-fsck ./git-reflog ./git-applymbox ./git-merge ./git-cherry-pick ./git-diff-files ./git-fetch ./git-fmt-merge-msg ./git-blame ./git-tar-tree ./git-request-pull ./git-archimport ./git-count-objects ./git-cvsexportcommit ./git-show-ref ./git-shortlog ./git-merge-resolve ./git-checkout-index ./git-gc ./git-am ./git-diff-index ./git-revert ./git-clean ./git-stripspace ./git-ls-tree ./git-unpack-objects ./git-checkout ./git-pack-objects ./git-merge-one-file ./git-lost-found ./git-svn ./git-remote ./git-update-ref ./git-apply ./git-repo-config ./git-symbolic-ref ./git-diff-tree ./git-upload-archive ./git-sh-setup ./git-send-email ./git-rerere ./git-config ./git-relink ./git-clone ./git-describe ./git-bisect ./git-cvsimport

>> Second, this is a more recent problem with 'make install':
>> make -C git-gui all
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/mnt/wa1ter/src/git/git-gui'
>> GITGUI_VERSION = 0.6.GITGUI

> Hmm.  You can't get the right version number for git-gui.  Do you
> have tags fetched?

Oops. I stupidly forgot to tell you the reason for the failure when running the script as root: /usr/local is not in root's path, and thus /usr/local/bin/git-* can't be found. Since the script assumes that git is already installed and working, I would guess that it would also fail if I had just fetched Junio's repository for the first time and attempted an initial install.

Sorry for that important omission :o(