A question about groups

[stan]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 11:21:21PM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-04-05 at 08:23 -0400, stan wrote:
> > I am trying to build an example package from source using the
> > instructions at:
> > 
> > https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rebuilding-ubuntu-debian-linux-binary-p
> > ackage/
> > 
> > When I run the first commaind, I get the following error message:
> > 
> > dpkg-source: info: applying 0203_generic-arch-fallback.patch
> > W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file 'mplayer_1.3.0-
> > 8.dsc' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13:
> > Permission denied)
> 
> Please tell us the actual command you were trying to run. I'm guessing
> it is this one:

sudo apt-get source mplayer
> 
> ?? ??sudo apt-get source mplayer
> 
> On that command, I get a similar message to the one you are getting.
> It's a warning ("W" prefix) rather than an actual error, so I suspect
> the command has actually worked OK.
> 
> I tried a couple of other source packages and got the same warning on
> each, but in each case the source appeared to have been installed OK. I
> suggest you press on.
> 
> I can't explain the message though. This may be one for Ralf :-)
> 

Thanks for the help.

What I am actually trying to do at the completion of things, is download the
openssl package, and recompile it with the older weak ciphers enables, We
have over 400 Mikrotik's installed on an internal, protected network, and
we are trying to upgrade the machine that monitors these devices. Modern
versions of ssl no longer support the old ciphers that are supported by the
Mikrotik firmware.

I have not been able to find documentation as to how to download the source
package, and recompile it with the appropriate config flags. I did find ones
for an older way of doing this, but they did not work as this package has
been migrated to quilt.

So, I found the above site, and decided to try following it's directions as
written.

FYI, that also fails, thus I started looking for errors.

I have been working on this for a couple of days, and my frustration level
is quite high.
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