Bug#4641: Bug#4628: dpkg-dev bugs that are not bugs -- please close!
In message <[🔎] 19981107224950.A19365@test.legislate.com> you wrote:
>Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
>> I agree the solution these bugs give is wrong, but I think there is an
>> underlying bug in dpkg-dev. The bug is that it creates the .tmp-nest
>> directories, and if it's interrupted at the right time, it will leave them
>> lying around. It should clean up the directories before exiting.
>In the worst case (kill -9, power failure, kernel bug, ...), that's
>not possible. Which implies some kind of documentation being readily
>available so the sysadmin can manually clean up this kind of thing.
>
>An intermediate "try harder" sort of approach would be to keep a
>detailed log on what's being built, and delete as long as what's
>there exactly matches what could plausibly have been built. I
>don't know if that much effort/complexity is warranted, though.
Geeze, the error message pretty much points out what the problem is...
What else do we want?
I mean, sure, I can see, yeah, it should clean up after a ctrl-c or
what have you. Is that what it's not doing? If so I should retitle
these bugs back.
.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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