Re: [Patch] Forcibly copy scripts to overwrite .svn files

[Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com>]

David Fifield wrote:
> When installing Nmap as a normal user from a Subversion checkout, the
> install-nse target throws up a bunch of permission denied errors if the
> "scripts" directory already exists in $(nmapdatadir):
>
>       $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/nmap-install
>       $ make
>       $ make install
>       $ make install
>       ...
>       cp -r scripts/ /home/david/nmap-install/share/nmap/
>       cp: cannot create regular file 
> `/home/david/nmap-install/share/nmap/scripts/.svn/text-base/nbstat.nse.svn-base': Permission denied
>       cp: cannot create regular file 
> `/home/david/nmap-install/share/nmap/scripts/.svn/text-base/showOwner.nse.svn-base': Permission denied
>       ...
>       cp: cannot create regular file `/home/david/nmap-install/share/nmap/scripts/.svn/format': Permission denied
>       make: *** [install-nse] Error 1
>
> As you can see, the .svn directory is getting copied along with the
> scripts. The files in this directory are not owner-writable (mode 444).
> cp -r refuses to overwrite them. This doesn't occur when installing the
> normal way as root, because cp allows root to copy over non-writable
> files. It also doesn't happen when compiling from a tarball for obvious
> reasons.
>
> This patch just adds the -f flag to cp to force the overwriting of the
> files. The real solution is to keep from installing the .svn
> directories, but this patch is probably desirable even in that case.
>
> David Fifield

Hey David,

You can use 'svn export' to export a clean directory (e.g. no .svn dir)
that you can compile and install from.


Thanks,
Kris Katterjohn

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