Description of problem: Every time Publican creates a directory it should check for success and croak with a useful message if it fails. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): publican-2.7 How reproducible: Easy Steps to Reproduce: 1. cd to a book as a normal user 2. create tmp dir 3. chown root:root tmp 4: run publican build Actual results: Weird errors Expected results: "Can't create directory $dir $why" Additional info:
This should be fixed in master branch due to moving from system call to mkpath. mkpath delivers a useful message when it fails. $cd foo $ mkdir tmp $ sudo chown root:root tmp $ publican build --langs all --formats xml DEBUG: Publican: config loaded Setting up ar-SA mkdir tmp/ar-SA: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Publican/Builder.pm line 331
Fix verified on Fedora 16 with Publican 3.0-0.fc16.t166. The same message is generated: $ publican build --langs all --formats xml Setting up en-US mkdir tmp/en-US: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Publican/Builder.pm line 345