Prevu aborts building certain packages that compiled perfectly fine

[Pizuz]

Binary package hint: prevu

I encountered this while trying to backport two packages: Zsnes and GStreamer. Both gave me the following error after compiling:

dpkg-deb: ignoring 1 warnings about the control file(s)
dpkg-deb: building package `zsnes' in `../zsnes_1.510-2.1ubuntu1~8.04prevu1_i386.deb'.
 dpkg-genchanges >../zsnes_1.510-2.1ubuntu1~8.04prevu1_i386.changes
dpkg-genchanges: not including original source code in upload
dpkg-buildpackage: binary and diff upload (original source NOT included)
Copying back the cached apt archive contents
 -> unmounting /var/cache/prevu/src/927 filesystem
 -> unmounting /var/cache/prevu/hardy-debs filesystem
 -> unmounting dev/pts filesystem
 -> unmounting proc filesystem
 -> cleaning the build env
    -> removing directory /var/cache/prevu/builds/1061 and its subdirectories
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Prevu Error: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/cache/prevu/hardy-debs/zsnes_1.510-2.1ubuntu1~8.04prevu1_i386.deb'
Prevu encountered an error performing your build. The actual
error message may be further up in the scrollback before pbuilder
exited. Please look for a failed dependency or compile error in
the full output.

Other packages could be built just fine and it looks like these two didn't show any problems at all. Except for Prevu refusing to build them.

I might add that building those two packages takes a lot of time. The root password might have expired during that time which could explain the 'Operation not permitted' error message.

Oh, and I'm on Hardy using the latest version of Prevu.

[John Dong (jdong)]

Make sure that /var/cache/prevu/* have group ownership of admin and you are in the admin group. This should be default when prevu-init or prevu-update is run.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

f-3582, is this still an issue for you?