Bug 175208

Summary:	prompt kdesu when installing in system paths
Product:	[Developer tools] kdesrc-build	Reporter:	Pino Toscano <pino>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Michael Pyne <mpyne>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ashark, toma
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Pino Toscano 2008-11-15 12:48:33 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #174806 +++

because of:

CMake Error at workspace/plasma/scriptengines/python/cmake_install.cmake:68 (FILE):
  file INSTALL cannot copy file
  &quot;/mnt/data/kde/source/kdebase/workspace/plasma/scriptengines/python/plasmascript.py&quot;
  to &quot;/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/PyKDE4/plasmascript.py&quot;.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  workspace/plasma/scriptengines/cmake_install.cmake:40 (INCLUDE)
  workspace/plasma/cmake_install.cmake:43 (INCLUDE)
  workspace/cmake_install.cmake:62 (INCLUDE)
  cmake_install.cmake:39 (INCLUDE)

it is not possible to install kdebase, a similar error appears in kdeedu. 

Would it be possible to detect that and ask for the sudo password in these cases?

It seems to be a limitation in Python &lt; 2.6.

+++

Reopening (well, cloning) this bug (wish) for kdesvn-build, asking for kdesu prompt for such cases.

Comment 1 Michael Pyne 2009-02-28 20:46:32 UTC

The current mechanism for handling this is make-install-prefix.  If merely prepending the make install command with "kdesu" will do the right thing then it shouldn't be too hard, and I wouldn't be opposed in theory.

But it's not very high on my priority list either.

Comment 2 Andrew Shark 2024-08-31 20:13:39 UTC

Yes, there is make-install-prefix, which can be set.