# HG changeset patch
# User Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>
# Date 1384297993 -3600
# Node ID 4099ffaa60ef32c68a14f20303fb7fe162b1cb76
# Parent  78a84f1ed2e5966298228353e4c23717d3cff72c
Added some error handling around potential permission problems.

diff -r 78a84f1ed2e5 -r 4099ffaa60ef uml-populate-image
--- a/uml-populate-image	Wed Nov 13 00:11:50 2013 +0100
+++ b/uml-populate-image	Wed Nov 13 00:13:13 2013 +0100
@@ -38,6 +38,14 @@
 THISDIR=`dirname "$0"`
 
 echo "Installing the package root..." 1>&2
+if ! touch "$PACKAGEROOT/root/tmp-uml-make-image" ; then
+        echo "The permissions for copying files from the package root into the image appear to be wrong." 1>&2
+        echo "You may be accessing a root-owned package root and thus need to specify --root as an option." 1>&2
+        exit 1
+else
+        rm "$PACKAGEROOT/root/tmp-uml-make-image"
+fi
+
 cp -a "$PACKAGEROOT/"* "$IMAGEDIR"/
 
 if [ -h "$IMAGEDIR/dev" ]; then