"cp: target `4.3a.tar.gz-2.6.26-2-686.postinst' is not a directory" and "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -b -i failed"

[Ralf Hauser]

just saw that this is the better place to report this than to send personal eMail

Hi,

On etch, we had truecrypt nicely working based on truecrypt-installer_20071024-1_i386.deb

Now, I am following your instructions in http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/506 to get it working on lenny again.

Unfortunately, I get:
<<Desktop# tc-dpkg --auto --install
Time-stamp: <2008-10-06 18:40:58 Jari Aalto (root)>
/usr/src/truecrypt-upstream-source-4.3a/truecrypt-4.3a-source-code.tar.gz: OK
Wait, checking build dependencies
/usr/src/truecrypt-upstream-source-4.3a/truecrypt-4.3a-source-code.tar.gz: OK
Wait, removing old sources /usr/src/truecrypt-4.3a-source-code
Wait, unpacking /usr/src/truecrypt-upstream-source-4.3a/truecrypt-4.3a-source-code.tar.gz
Wait, getting 'debian' control directory with: bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jari-aalto/truecrypt-deb/trunk/
Branched 339 revision(s).
This may take a while. Starting *.deb building process in /usr/src/truecrypt-4.3a-source-code
 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -b -i
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: using a gain-root-command while being root
dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: source package truecrypt
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 4.3a-13
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Jari Aalto <email address hidden>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386 fakeroot debian/rules clean # prepare-control: generate debian/control sed -e "s/_KVERM_/2.6.26/g" \
     -e "s/_KVER_/2.6.26-2-686/g"\
     -e "s/_TRVER_/4.3a 4.3a.tar.gz/g"\
     -e "s/-_KDEP_//g"\
     -e "s/_KDEPP_//g"\
     -e "s/_KDEP_//g"\
      debian/control.in > debian/control cd debian && \
 cp tc-modules.postinst.in \
    tc-modules-4.3a 4.3a.tar.gz-2.6.26-2-686.postinst
cp: target `4.3a.tar.gz-2.6.26-2-686.postinst' is not a directory
make: *** [prepare-control] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1319:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -b -i failed Desktop#>>

First, there was a failure "fakeroot"

I guess also a dependency on "fakeroot" should be added.

Any hints what to do next?

Many thanks in advance!

   Regards

       Ralf

[Ralf Hauser (hauser)]

uname -a
   Linux hauser-debug 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Mar 26 01:08:11 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

bzr --version
Bazaar (bzr) 1.5
  Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python 2.5.2
  Python standard library: /usr/lib/python2.5
  bzrlib: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib
  Bazaar configuration: /home/hauser/.bazaar
  Bazaar log file: /home/hauser/.bzr.log

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http://bazaar-vcs.org/

bzr comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. bzr is free software, and
you may use, modify and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License version 2 or later.

 head /etc/issue.net
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0

[Ralf Hauser (hauser)]

hauser-debug:/usr/src/truecrypt-4.3a-source-code/debian# ls -lart
total 156
drwxr-xr-x 11 root src 4096 2009-05-11 10:00 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38 2009-05-11 10:00 tc-modules.postrm.in
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38 2009-05-11 10:00 tc-modules.postinst.in
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 532 2009-05-11 10:00 tc-modules-modprobe.postrm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4385 2009-05-11 10:00 tc-modules-modprobe.postinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101 2009-05-11 10:00 tc.modprobe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 276 2009-05-11 10:00 tc-doc.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 208 2009-05-11 10:00 tc-doc.postinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 242 2009-05-11 10:00 tc-doc.lintian-override
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248 2009-05-11 10:00 tc-doc.doc-base
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 2009-05-11 10:00 tc-cli.lintian-override
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24191 2009-05-11 10:00 rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6048 2009-05-11 10:00 README.Debian-devel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2116 2009-05-11 10:00 README.Debian
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-05-11 10:00 patches
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 2009-05-11 10:00 docs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9 2009-05-11 10:00 dirs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28039 2009-05-11 10:00 copyright
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1596 2009-05-11 10:00 control.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2009-05-11 10:00 compat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9561 2009-05-11 10:00 changelog
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2009-05-11 10:00 .bzr
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-05-11 10:00 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1600 2009-05-11 10:00 control

now I did a manual
     hauser-debug:/usr/src/truecrypt-4.3a-source-code/debian# mkdir 4.3a.tar.gz-2.6.26-2-686.postinst
but this didn't help because it gets overwritten

hauser-debug:/home/hauser/Desktop# diff -u /usr/src/truecrypt-4.3a-source-code/debian/rules rules
--- /usr/src/truecrypt-4.3a-source-code/debian/rules 2009-05-11 10:15:28.000000000 +0200
+++ rules 2009-05-11 10:13:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -668,6 +668,7 @@
 endif

  cd debian && \
+ mkdir $(PACKAGE)-modules-$(VERSION).postinst \
  cp $(PACKAGE)-modules.postinst.in \
     $(PACKAGE)-modules-$(VERSION).postinst

and then, at least

hauser-debug:/usr/src/truecrypt-4.3a-source-code/debian# make -f rules
test -d debian/patched || install -d debian/patched
dpatch apply-all
dpatch cat-all >>patch-stampT
mv -f patch-stampT patch-stamp

[Ralf Hauser (hauser)]

oops, I guess we get there in a different way:

the reason that it didn't work was that the rules script stumbled of the tar.gz file being in the wrong location

a fix might be

 TRVER := $(shell cd /usr/src && find . -name 'truecrypt-4*' -type d | \
              sed 's,./,, ; s/-source-code// ; s/.*-//; s,/.*,,' )

[Jari Aalto (jari-aalto)]

Committed to r352, Thanks.

[Jari Aalto (jari-aalto)]

Fixed in r352