[maemo-users] Emacs

[From: Peter Flynn]

Peter Flynn wrote:
> Having fixed the ncurses-base dependency, I tried to install with
> 
>> # mkdir /media/mmc1/emacs
>> # dpkg --instdir=/media/mmc1/emacs -i emacs_22.1-1_armel.deb
>> (Reading database ... 18457 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Unpacking emacs (from emacs_22.1-1_armel.deb) ...
>> dpkg: error processing emacs_22.1-1_armel.deb (--install):
>>  error setting ownership of `./usr': Operation not permitted
>> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>  emacs_22.1-1_armel.deb
>> # ls -ld /media/mmc1/emacs/
>> drwxrwxrwx  2 user root  32768 Jun 21 16:09 /media/mmc1/emacs/
>> # 
> 
> Why should it have a problem with ownership when I'm installing as root?

Turns out that OS2008 allows the cards to be mounted as user.
umounted mmc1 and remounted as root, and it appeared to start 
installing, but now it's gagging on

> (Reading database ... 18457 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking emacs (from emacs_22.1-1_armel.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing emacs_22.1-1_armel.deb (--install):
>  error creating hard link `./usr/bin/emacs-22.1': Operation not permitted

and it doesn't appear to have written any files (maybe it wipes all 
traces if it aborts?)

///Peter