Comment 7 for bug 599163

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:17, Andreas Noteng <email address hidden> wrote:
> Subscribed Felipe Sateler, the maintainer of the checkinstall package.
>
> ** Description changed:
>
>  Binary package hint: checkinstall
>
>  checkinstall-1.6.2 can fail package creation because of inability to
>  create a new directory and or dir/subdir.
>
>  It doesn't appear to be that it can't at all, but  in most cases it will fail.
>  Am attaching a simple case - building static  x264 where checkinstalled failed as such
>
>  "install: cannot change permissions of `/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig': No
>  such file or directory"
>
>  After manually creating /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig the .deb creation was
>  successful
>
>  Have another Ex. on other pc where it failed to create 5 out of 9 or 10
>  dir/subdir, though it did create some of them..
>
> + Filesystem translation is enabled by default in Maverick, disabling
> + filesystem translation fixes this issue.
> +
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
>  Package: checkinstall 1.6.2-1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-5.6-generic 2.6.35-rc3
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-5-generic i686
>  Architecture: i386
>  Date: Sun Jun 27 22:30:15 2010
>  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100624)
>  ProcEnviron:
> -  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> -  SHELL=/bin/bash
> +  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> +  SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: checkinstall
>
> --
> Defect in checkinstall-1.6.2 : checkinstall can fail to create a new diirectory
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599163
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Could you run the checkinstall command in debug mode?

checkinstall <flags-you-were-using> -d2

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler