Ah, G'day Jamie - didn't actually realise you were the maintainer.. :) On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:49:49PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Pete Ryland wrote: > >So is this a bug with mime-support (shouldn't have blown away mailcap > >when /tmp was full), quake2-data (shouldn't have filled /tmp in the first > >place), both, or should I have been monitoring /tmp and it's really my > >own silly fault? (100M is surely enough for most things, no?) > > It's a bug with quake2-data for not checking that the unpack will fit into > /tmp. I should add a debconf question asking where the user would like to > unpack it to (or perhaps use the same directory that the data is > downloaded to). Using the same directory is probably reasonable. And I can't remember it saying how much room would be needed. ;) I actually assumed it would be quite small (<100M anyway), hence my original choice of /tmp. > As for blowing away mailcap, was this automagically rebuilt after > quake2-data was installed? I am assuming that your /tmp and /etc are on > the same partition. Bingo! Yeah, of course, on this box they are.. that would be it. Hmm.. could be a hard thing to get around then on the part of the update-mime script since this obviously involves a race between programs writing to /tmp and /etc. In fact on line 200ish it does check, but doesn't return a non-zero exit code from the looks of it, so I wouldn't have noticed the error message until I ran it manually. I shall file a bug report anyway, just to raise it at least as a potential issue. Pete
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