"permission denied" when running "ipkg print-architecture"

  perhaps i'm misunderstanding what happens with the fundamental
operation, but i'm curious why, when i run:

  $ ipkg print-architecture

as a regular user, i get:

ipkg: Cannot create directory `/usr/lib/ipkg': Permission denied
ipkg: Cannot create directory `/usr/lib/ipkg': Permission denied
ipkg: Cannot create directory `/usr/lib/ipkg': Permission denied
arch all 1
arch noarch 1
arch i686 10

just because i haven't yet installed anything, and therefore, there
is no /usr/lib/ipkg directory.

  certainly, just printing the architecture is not a root-only operation,
and if that directory doesn't yet exist, why would "ipkg" then try to
create it when all i'm asking for is the architecture?

  can someone clarify this?

rday

  
Received on Thu Nov 27 2003 - 15:33:07 EST