On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 05:14:48PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 18:15 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org> (06/03/2010): > > > How can I change the temporary directory where it builds the > > > tarballs? I don't see anything in the manpage or dpkg-deb --help > > > output. > > > > (Untested) > > > > It probably honours TMP/TMPDIR environment variables. > > Ah yes, a search for "dpkg-deb TMPDIR" turns up bug 247086 where someone > asked to include this in the documentation. The reply: but it's so > obvious, no need to include it. Version 1.10.22 claimed to fix it, but > only fixed one part of the bug, the TMPDIR issue remained. > > I've been a DD for ten years and didn't think of it, so I can't agree > about the obviousness... I think I'll open a new bug. > This makes me wonder if it would be a good idea to include something in policy about applications respecting TMP/TMPDIR. I have run across several applications in Debian at various times that do not really support TMP and TMPDIR to the degree that one would expect. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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