On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:25:02PM +0200, Michael Fedrowitz wrote: > tags 306921 + upstream > forwarded 306921 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > thanks
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 05:17 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 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.)
When calling interdiff -z, it uses (IIRC) tmpfile() for creation of
temporary files, and this function does not respect TMPDIR.
Cheers,
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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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