On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 20:29 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > libgnome-java failed to build > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2638084 I took a look out of curiosity, and this appears to be an intermittent problem that occurs when two instances of install(1) try to write to the same file at the same time: /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'doc/examples/runExample.sh' '/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/libgnome-java-2.12.7-2.fc14.1.i386/usr/share/doc/libgnome-java-2.12.7/examples/runExample.sh' /usr/bin/install -c 'doc/examples/runExample.sh' '/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/libgnome-java-2.12.7-2.fc14.1.i386/usr/share/doc/libgnome-java-2.12.7/examples/runExample.sh' ... /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/libgnome-java-2.12.7-2.fc14.1.i386/usr/share/doc/libgnome-java-2.12.7/examples/runExample.sh': File exists Indeed: $ install -c -m 644 foo bar & install -c foo bar [1] 29565 [1]+ Done install -c -m 644 foo bar $ install -c -m 644 foo bar & install -c foo bar [1] 29567 [1]+ Done install -c -m 644 foo bar $ install -c -m 644 foo bar & install -c foo bar [1] 29569 install: cannot create regular file `bar': File exists [1]+ Exit 1 install -c -m 644 foo bar $ install -c -m 644 foo bar & install -c foo bar [1] 29571 [1]+ Done install -c -m 644 foo bar $ install -c -m 644 foo bar & install -c foo bar [1] 29573 install: cannot create regular file `bar': File exists [1]+ Done install -c -m 644 foo bar $ install -c -m 644 foo bar & install -c foo bar [1] 29575 install: cannot create regular file `bar': File exists [1]+ Done install -c -m 644 foo bar When this succeeds, the permissions are unpredictably 644 or 755. The solution: patch the package to not do that, or just try again and hope you get lucky. -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
