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On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 05:17 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:

 Hi,

> Trying to use debdiff on a system with a small root partition can fail,
> because interdiff -z does not respect the TMPDIR environment setting:
> 
> $ TMPDIR=/var/tmp debdiff gcc-3.4_3.4.3-12{,.1}.dsc
> interdiff: writing temp file: No space left on device
> debdiff: fatal error at line 365:
> interdiff -z /home/devel/release/gcc-3.4_3.4.3-12.diff.gz 
> /home/devel/release/gcc-3.4_3.4.3-12.1.diff.gz failed!
> $
> 
> It would be helpful if it did respect this standard variable.

Ok, this is weird, since it says quite clearly in interdiff.c:

tmpdir = getenv ("TMPDIR");

Possibly this is not used everywhere the way it's supposed to? (Don't
have the time right now to investigate closer.)

-Michael


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