[maemo-developers] deb permissions problem in SDK

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2007/5/28, Ian <vern at riseup.net>:
> Ola,
> >> Make your script scratchbox compatible by checking whether
> >> /targets/links/scratchbox.config exists and substitute user with $USER
> >> if it does.
> >
> > Or simply make a symlink to your home dir inside
> > /scratchbox/users/<yourusername>/home/ in case you have root access to
> > the machine you are running scratchbox on...
>
> Sorry,I am not sure what you mean... make a symlink to/from what?...here is what i did..

In your case (in /scratchbox/users/vern/home/) from user/ to vern/
(note that you should do it in the directory to avoid the full path
being taken).

This way any script that uses the hard-coded path '/home/user' will
actually use your home dir through the link.

-- 
Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi
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